HB0225 Summary

• Amends Section 22 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to remove provisions that prohibited the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation from disciplining physicians for experimental treatments of Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases.

• Eliminates the specific protection that prevented disciplinary action against physicians recommending or prescribing treatment with long-term antibiotics for Lyme disease and related conditions.

• Restores the Department's authority to discipline physicians for experimental Lyme disease treatments under the same standards applied to other medical conduct.