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Senate Amendment 3494

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 323 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 135.24, Code 1995, is amended
  1  5 to read as follows:
  1  6    135.24  VOLUNTEER PHYSICIAN HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
  1  7 PROGRAM ESTABLISHED &endash; IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY.
  1  8    1.  The director shall establish within the
  1  9 department a program to provide to eligible hospitals,
  1 10 clinics, or other health care facilities, or health
  1 11 care referral programs, free medical services given on
  1 12 a voluntary basis by physicians licensed under chapter
  1 13 148, 150, or 150A health care providers.  A
  1 14 participating physician health care provider shall
  1 15 register with the department and obtain from the
  1 16 department a list of eligible, participating
  1 17 hospitals, clinics, or other health care facilities,
  1 18 or health care referral programs.
  1 19    2.  The department, in consultation with the
  1 20 department of human services, shall adopt rules to
  1 21 implement the volunteer physician health care provider
  1 22 program which shall include the following:
  1 23    a.  Procedures for registration of physicians
  1 24 health care providers deemed qualified by the board of
  1 25 medical examiners, the board of physician assistant
  1 26 examiners, and the board of nursing.
  1 27    b.  Criteria for and identification of hospitals,
  1 28 clinics, or other health care facilities, or health
  1 29 care referral programs eligible to participate in the
  1 30 provision of free medical services through the
  1 31 volunteer physician health care provider program.  A
  1 32 health care facility, a health care referral program,
  1 33 or a health care provider participating in the program
  1 34 shall not bill or charge a patient for any physician
  1 35 health care provider service provided under the
  1 36 volunteer physician health care provider program.
  1 37    3.  A physician health care provider providing free
  1 38 care under this section shall be considered an
  1 39 employee of the state under chapter 669 and shall be
  1 40 afforded protection as an employee of the state under
  1 41 section 669.21, provided that the physician health
  1 42 care provider has done all of the following:
  1 43    a.  Registered with the department pursuant to
  1 44 subsection 1.
  1 45    b.  Provided medical services through a hospital,
  1 46 clinic, or other health care facility, or health care
  1 47 referral program listed as eligible and participating
  1 48 by the department pursuant to subsection 1.
  1 49    4.  For the purposes of this section, "health care
  1 50 provider" means a physician licensed under chapter
  2  1 148, 150, or 150A, a physician assistant licensed and
  2  2 practicing under a supervising physician pursuant to
  2  3 chapter 148C, a licensed practical nurse, or a
  2  4 registered nurse."
  2  5    #2.  Title page, by striking line 2 and inserting
  2  6 the following:  "program to include other health care
  2  7 providers." 
  2  8 
  2  9 
  2 10                              
  2 11 MARY E. KRAMER
  2 12 SF 323.201 76
  2 13 pf/jj
     

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