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Relating to the practice of polysomnography
Sponsored by the House Human Resources Committee
Topics:Health care
Same legislation: HSB 158
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 4, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill concerns the practice of polysomnography in Iowa. The bill adds a requirement that any in-home sleep diagnostic testing be performed with equipment provided by a sleep diagnostic testing facility, hospital, or mobile testing company with a physical location in Iowa or within miles of Iowa and that the patient receive education on the proper use of such equipment by a certified respiratory care practitioner, respiratory care and polysomnography practitioner, registered polysomnographic technologist, or physician employed by or affiliated with the sleep diagnostic testing facility, or by a person supervised by such a person.
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The bill also requires that any sleep-related services provided in a patient’s home be performed under the general supervision of a physician or qualified health care professional prescriber, or a person supervised by such a person, and data from the provision of sleep-related services shall be interpreted by a physician. The bill requires a sleep diagnostic testing facility, as defined in the bill, to be accredited by a nationally recognized sleep medicine laboratory or center accrediting agency.
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