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As enacted, makes various changes concerning the practice of physical therapy. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13.
As enacted, permits a dentist to supervise up to 10 dental hygienists when providing dental services on a volunteer basis through a nonprofit provider of free mobile clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.
As enacted, expands the Health Care Empowerment Act to allow all licensed medical professionals to use direct medical care agreements without regulation by the insurance laws of this state. - Amends TCA Title 63.
As introduced, makes various changes to the certificate of need process for healthcare facilities and services. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.
As introduced, deletes prohibition on the appointment of persons to the board of dentistry who are employed by or are a member of the governing body of a dental school or related educational institution, or any dental supply business or laboratory. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.
As introduced, prohibits a board under the division of health related boards from renewing the license of a licensee who has not paid the licensee's renewal fee and is currently incarcerated; clarifies that emergency summary suspension or revocation of a health care provider's license by a licensing board does not require the prior approval of the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29, Chapter 26; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to submit its annual report to the governor in electronic form. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, requests the department and its division of health related boards to perform a study on the licensure and regulation of cannabis for medical use by departments of health and medical professional licensing boards in states contiguous to Tennessee and report findings to the general assembly's health committees by December 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63.
Requests Tennessee Board of Pharmacy to study the work environment of pharmacies to determine if rules should be promulgated to promote patient safety.
As introduced, changes from November 30 to November 1 the date by which the department of health must compile, finalize, and make available to the public an electronic compilation of the statistics reported by the hospitals for the fiscal years ending during a calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 68.
As introduced, increases the number of regular meetings the board of chiropractic examiners must have from one to two meetings a year. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.
As introduced, authorizes certain medical professionals to prescribe hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; adds hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment as an authorized medical service that TennCare may provide for eligible veterans. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Section 71-5-107.
As enacted, changes the determination of indigence income for the definition of charity care, and the amount of debt that may be deemed charity care and uncollectable, for purposes of a hospital reporting on the joint annual reports to the department of health, center for health statistics. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.
As enacted, extends to a rural health clinic the same authorization that a federally qualified health center has to employ a physician if the employment relationship is evidenced by a written contract, job description, or documentation containing language that does not restrict the physician from exercising independent medical judgment in diagnosing and treating patients. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.
As introduced, permits a substance abuse peer assistance or treatment program to report to a practitioner's licensing board by electronic means the failure of the practitioner participating in the program to maintain compliance with the program's terms and conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53 and Title 63.
As introduced, establishes cost and expense thresholds below which certain new healthcare projects no longer require a certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
As introduced, deletes prohibition on the appointment of persons to the board of dentistry who are employed by or are a member of the governing body of a dental school or related educational institution, or any dental supply business or laboratory. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-103.
As introduced, allows a dentist to enter into a direct primary care agreement with an individual patient or the patient's legal representative pursuant to the Health Care Empowerment Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 63.
As introduced, increases from 30 to 45 days the time within which a person issued a certificate of registration by the division of health related boards must notify the division of a change of address to receive a duplicate registration certificate. - Amends TCA Title 63.
As introduced, adds to the list of practices exempt from the provisions of the chapter on dentistry the taking of intraoral or extraoral photographic images using technologies that do not emit ionizing radiation. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-109.
As introduced, requires each hospital with surgical services, and each ambulatory surgical treatment center, operating in this state to adopt and implement a policy by July 1, 2021, that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke by the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, makes various changes to the licensing of and prescribing authority for advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, specifies the types of standards that the Tennessee emergency medical services board may promulgate related to the licensure of air ambulance services and special personnel equipment operation and activities; identifies such standards as including response and operations standards, standards for communications, and records and forms. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68, Chapter 140.
As introduced, removes various restrictions on the employment of radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture, not later than January 31, 2020, to report to the Tennessee board of medical examiners the number of certificates issued to practice acupuncture in this state in 2019, and a 10-year plan to grow the practice in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 10.
As introduced, requires the department to conduct an exit interview with the administrator of a home care organization after a licensure survey is performed to allow the administrator the opportunity to discuss the department's findings. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.
As introduced, requires healthcare facilities and providers to post a price for each healthcare service offered and to accept the price as payment in full if any patient or third-party payer on behalf of the patient pays the price in full within 30 days after the date the healthcare service was provided. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71.
As introduced, enacts the "Nursing Home Resident Care Monitoring Act," which requires nursing homes to equip a resident's room with a monitoring device at the request of the resident or the resident's legal representative. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As enacted, rewrites provisions governing limited pilot project for certification of a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center; creates limited pilot project for purpose of determining the impact of such training centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
As enacted, authorizes an existing licensed nursing home to relocate beds in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.
As enacted, revises requirements for certificate to practice as a registered nurse first assistant. - Amends TCA Title 63.
As enacted, authorizes persons who possess certain qualifications to obtain a provisional license as a speech language pathologist. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
As enacted, authorizes a person who is licensed, registered, or certificated to provide emergency medical services in this state and who is required by statute or rule to keep proof of their license, registration, or certification on their person to satisfy that requirement by providing the proof by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
As enacted, authorizes an applicant for licensure as a hearing instrument specialist to substitute board certification by the national board for certification in hearing instrument sciences for the requirement that an applicant for licensure must have an education equivalent to two years of accredited college level coursework. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 17, Part 2.
As enacted, exempts certain medical professionals from massage licensure requirements where massages for compensation are provided in the offices of such medical professionals by licensed massage therapists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 18.
As enacted, permits dental hygienists to exercise prescriptive authority that is limited to fluoride agents, topical oral anesthetic agents, and nonsystemic oral antimicrobials under certain conditions; requires the board of dentistry to set educational and training requirements by rule; requires board to also determine allowable percentages of certain active ingredients in medications that may be prescribed by dental hygienists. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.
As enacted, adds the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate as permanent ex officio voting members of the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 2.
As enacted, specifies that requirement for licensure of persons who practice medicine does not prohibit a licensed nonresidential office-based opiate treatment facility from employing or contracting with a physician if the facility has a physician in the ownership structure of its controlling business entity and the employment relationship between the physician to be employed or contracted with and the nonresidential office-based opiate treatment facility is evidenced by a written contract or employment agreement containing language that does not restrict the physician from exercising independent professional medical judgment in diagnosing and treating patients. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
As enacted, creates exemptions to licensure and certification requirements, as applicable, for certain medical professionals licensed in other states who are participating in federal Innovative Readiness Training programs. - Amends TCA Title 58 and Title 63.
As enacted, authorizes the department to seek a federal grant from the federal department of health and human services' health resources and services administration, or any other applicable entity, to develop a training program for certified nurse practitioners in treating and processing a minor who is a victim of certain sexual offenses; requires the training program to be free of charge for participants. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.
As enacted, removes certain qualifications for the supervision of prospective clinical pastoral therapists; authorizes the board of clinical pastoral therapists to establish its own qualifications for supervisors. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 22, Part 2.
As enacted, restricts the use of the title "nurse" to those actively licensed or certified by the board of nursing; revises the provisions governing the board of nursing's enjoining violations of practicing nursing without a license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8; Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4 and Title 63.
As enacted, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with certain collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.
As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.
As introduced, increases the period in which notice must be given to the health services and development agency that a health care institution has changed ownership from 30 to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 68.
As enacted, changes from once every five years to once every four years the timeframe during which social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, and occupational therapists must complete an approved suicide prevention training program. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-125.
As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period within which an applicant for a certificate of need for a nonresidential substitution-based treatment center for opiate addiction must notify the chief executive officer of the county or municipality of the filing of the application if it involves a healthcare facility in which the county or municipality is the lessor of the facility or real property on which it sits. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.
As enacted, deletes redundant surety bond requirement for persons who practice animal massage therapy. - Amends TCA Section 63-12-203.
As introduced, removes requirement for any home care organization and satellite emergency department to apply for and receive a certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
As enacted, clarifies that the definition of the practice of nursing does not prevent qualified registered nurses from making determinations that patients are experiencing emergency medical conditions, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68.
As introduced, removes from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need the establishment of a satellite emergency department facility by a hospital at a location other than the hospital's main campus; removes cardiac catheterization as a healthcare service requiring a certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, prohibits adverse action against licenses to practice certain healthcare professions based on recommending or marketing industrial hemp-based products; establishes contingencies for changes in terminology relating to hemp under the federal 2018 Farm Bill. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 43 and Title 63.