SB2202 Summary

• Creates new Chapter 43 of North Dakota Century Code requiring health care practitioners to identify their type of professional license in advertisements and communications, prohibiting deceptive or misleading information about credentials, skills, training, or education.

• Requires health care practitioners providing services in North Dakota to post their specific professional licensure in a conspicuous location, affirmatively communicate it to patients, and wear a photo identification name tag during all patient encounters showing the practitioner's name, recent photograph, and license type.

• Applies to 11 categories of regulated health care practitioners including physicians (M.D./D.O.), nurses, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists, optometrists, physician assistants, audiologists, psychologists, physical therapists, and naturopaths.

• Establishes violations including knowingly aiding unlicensed persons to practice, aiding practitioners to work outside their scope of practice, and delegating services to persons lacking required licensure authority; violations constitute unprofessional conduct subject to disciplinary action.

• Exempts health care practitioners working in nonpatient care settings with no direct patient interactions and prohibits patients from bringing private lawsuits, while allowing professional licensing boards to seek injunctions against violators.