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Relating to licensee discipline relating to financial gain by a physician for actions relating to particular drugs and devices
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2023
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 includes in the acts or offenses for which the board of medicine may discipline a licensee, the receiving or agreeing to receive a commission, rebate, remuneration, or other financial gain in exchange for the promotion of, referral of a patient for, or the selling, prescribing, dispensing, or administering of, a particular drug or device for other than legal and legitimate therapeutic purposes. Under Code section 148.6, licensee discipline may include a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 2, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part