Bill Text: HI SB902 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Health Care Peer Review.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-24 - Referred to HRE, CPH. [SB902 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB902-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

902

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to health care peer review.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that in order to ensure physicians in Hawaii are well trained and committed to delivering high quality, safe, and effective care for patients, postgraduate medical physicians are required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the national accrediting body for postgraduate medical programs, and by their specialty boards to learn about and participate in health care quality improvement activities.  This is done in close alignment with the health care entities who provide the clinical learning environment for these trainees.  One of the core competencies that all physicians are expected to attain by the end of their residency training is to continually improve patient care through constant self-evaluation and life-long learning.  Resident physicians and fellows are expected to incorporate formative evaluation feedback, such as peer-review pursuant to chapter 671D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, into their daily practice.  They are also expected to participate in identifying system errors and in implementing potential system solutions, which mirrors the intent of chapter 671D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The legislature finds that although postgraduate medical physicians can be named in lawsuits, they are unable to participate in the peer review processes that are intended to improve the quality of medical care delivery.  Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to encourage postgraduate medical physicians to participate in peer-review processes by affording them the same incentives and protections as licensed physicians engaging in effective peer review.

     SECTION 2.  Section 671D-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "physician" to read as follows:

     ""Physician" means an individual licensed under chapter 453 or section 463E-1, to practice medicine or surgery or osteopathy or podiatric medicine; a resident physician or fellow participating in a graduate medical education program as defined in section 304A-1701; an individual licensed under chapter 448 to practice dentistry or dental surgery; or any individual who, without authority, holds oneself out to be so authorized."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Health Care Peer Review; Residents and Fellows

 

Description:

Provides resident physicians and fellows participating in a graduate medical education program with the same incentives and protections as licensed physicians engaging in the health care peer review process.

 

 

 

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