ND HB1221

Creates new chapter in North Dakota Century Code requiring health care practitioners to identify their specific license type in all advertisements for health care services, prohibiting deceptive or misleading information about profession, skills, training, expertise, education, board certification, or licensure.

Requires health care practitioners providing services in North Dakota to post their specific licensure conspicuously and wear a photo identification name tag during all patient encounters displaying a recent photograph, the practitioner's name, and license type in sufficient size and conspicuous manner.

Exempts practitioners from name tag requirement if working in non-patient care settings with no direct patient interactions, if wearing identification jeopardizes safety, if license type and practitioner names are displayed on office door with licenses posted prominently in the office, or if the office is a solo practitioner or single provider type office.

Defines "health care practitioner" to include 11 licensure types: allopathic medicine (M.D.), osteopathic medicine (D.O.), nursing (D.N.P., N.P., R.N., L.P.N., C.R.N.A.), podiatry (D.P.M.), chiropractic (D.C.), naturopathy (N.D.), physician assistants (P.A.), physical therapists (P.T., D.P.T., M.P.T.), medical assistants (M.A.), audiology (Au.D., Sc.D., Ph.D.), and psychology (Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D.).

Violations constitute unprofessional conduct grounds for disciplinary action by professional licensing boards, do not create private patient right of action, but allow boards to seek injunctions or other legal remedies.