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Relating to the information to be provided by a health care provider as part of a referral of a patient to an ambulatory surgical center, and providing for licensee discipline
Topics:Health care
Same legislation: HF 116
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 10, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If a doctor thinks you can have surgery at an outpatient center instead of a hospital, they must give you a written list of things to think about before you decide. This document helps you make an informed choice about where your surgery happens. Doctors who do not provide this information could face discipline against their professional license.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires a health care provider who determines that a patient is a candidate for outpatient surgery, based on the patient’s medical status and surgical service needs, and refers the patient to an ambulatory surgical center as an option for the surgery, to provide the patient with a written document listing the factors the patient should consider to make a fully informed decision about the recommended course of care. The bill specifies the considerations to be included in the written document and provides definitions of “ambulatory surgical center”, “health care provider”, and “hospital” for the purposes of the bill. A health care provider who violates the bill is subject to licensee discipline.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 10, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Tried before
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2405 Relating to the information to be provided by a health care provider as part of a referral…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HF 2248 Relating to the information to be provided by a health care provider as part of a referral…89th General Assembly · Passed HouseNearly identical
Matched by wording or an identical title.