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MN HF1882
Bill
Status
2/16/2023
Primary Sponsor
Paul H. Anderson
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AI Summary
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Requires physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses to provide patients with information about diagnosis, laboratory and diagnostic testing results, treatment alternatives, risks, and prognosis in both oral and written form during examination, diagnosis, or treatment.
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Allows patients to choose whether written information is provided in paper or electronic form.
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Requires health care providers to sign written information attesting to its provision, and patients must sign attesting to its receipt; both attestations must be included in the patient's health record.
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Permits patients to refuse receipt of this information as authorized under existing Minnesota law.
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Authorizes health-related licensing boards to take disciplinary action against providers who violate these requirements.
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Effective August 1, 2023, and applies to health care provided on or after that date.
Legislative Description
Health care providers required to provide patients with information about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis orally and in writing; health-related licensing boards allowed to discipline providers for violations.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy
2/16/2023