No. CS/HB 809
Filed under Healthcare.
Temporary Certificates for Practice in Areas of Critical Need; Revises conditions under which Board of Medicine, Board of Osteopathic Medicine, & Board of Nursing, respectively, may issue temporary certificates for practice in areas of critical need; authorizes certificateholders to continue primary care services after such areas lose their critical need designation under certain circumstances.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDTemporary certificates for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and advanced practice registered nurses practicing in critical-need areas used to become invalid once the area lost its critical-need designation. Now they can stay valid, under conditions, even after that happens.
To qualify, the certificateholder must maintain an active primary care relationship with at least one existing patient in the area, and the board must find, during its review, that all other requirements are still satisfied.
The continued practice this allows is limited to primary care services for patients already in the area; it does not extend the certificate's original full scope of practice.
The same change is made identically to the physician, osteopathic physician, and nurse practice acts, so it applies the same way across all three professions holding these certificates.
AIA temporary certificate for practice in a critical-need area, previously valid only for as long as the area kept its critical-need designation, now also stays valid after that designation lapses, if the certificateholder meets a new set of conditions.
AIEven when this new exception applies, the certificateholder may only continue providing primary care services in the area, not the full scope of practice the original temporary certificate authorized.
AIThe exception only applies if the certificateholder maintains an active primary care treatment relationship with one or more patients already in the area; it is not a general license to keep practicing there for new patients.
AIContinued practice after the area loses its designation is conditioned on the board finding, during its review of the certificateholder, that all other requirements are satisfied, the same annual review that already applies to every temporary certificateholder.