OH HB495

Requires specified health care professionals (advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians) to offer patients a medical chaperone before conducting intimate examinations of the pelvic area, genitals, rectum, breast, or prostate.

Permits health care professionals to refuse to conduct intimate examinations if the patient or patient representative declines to have a medical chaperone present.

Mandates health care professionals report to state licensing boards any knowledge that another professional has engaged in sexual interaction or contact with a patient, received a patient complaint of sexual conduct, or routinely fails to offer chaperones during intimate examinations.

Subjects health care professionals who fail to comply with these requirements to discipline through existing board enforcement mechanisms.

Designates the legislation as the Patient Protection Act.