HB 5934 Summary

• Authorizes expedited partner therapy in Michigan to treat sexual partners of patients diagnosed with gonorrhea or chlamydia without examining the partner directly.

• Allows health professionals to dispense or prescribe single-dose antibiotic therapy to a partner if the patient has a laboratory-confirmed or suspected diagnosis, identifies a partner from the past 60 days, and indicates the partner is unlikely to seek timely clinical care.

• Requires health professionals providing expedited partner therapy to notify patients of the importance of partner notification and medical evaluation, and distribute a department-developed information sheet covering treatment details, retesting requirements, pregnancy warnings, and drug interaction risks.

• Grants immunity from criminal prosecution, civil liability, and administrative action to health professionals who provide expedited partner therapy in compliance with the law, except in cases of gross negligence.

• Modifies existing pharmacy and prescriber regulations to clarify that expedited partner therapy recipients may be identified as "expedited partner therapy" rather than by patient name when partner identity is unknown.