| IN | SB0448 | Engross | Nonprofit hospital report. Requires a nonprofit hospital to annually report the policies, procedures, activities, or any other actions taken by the nonprofit hospital in the preceding calendar year that were intended to make health care more affordab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| IN | SB0098 | Engross | Certified registered nurse anesthetists. Requires a physician to be available for timely consultation with a certified registered nurse anesthetist who is administering anesthesia under the direction of the physician during a surgical procedure (curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| IN | SB0192 | Engross | Inpatient mental health care for Medicaid children. Requires a managed care organization to allow a child Medicaid recipient who has been certified for admission to a psychiatric hospital to be provided certain services that are determined by a treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| IN | HB1338 | Intro | PFAS in public water systems. Requires the state department of health (state department) to establish state maximum contaminant levels for PFAS in water provided by public water systems. Provides that maximum contaminant levels established by the sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
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| IN | HB1128 | Intro | Tobacco issues. Prohibits a person who is less than 21 years of age from buying or possessing: (1) cigarettes; (2) tobacco products; (3) e-liquid; or (4) electronic cigarettes. Makes conforming changes regarding enforcement provisions, sales certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
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| IN | HB1384 | Intro | Craft hemp flower. Changes "hemp flower" references to "craft hemp flower". Provides that a retail merchant certificate fee for a merchant that sells craft hemp flower is $100. Creates packaging requirements for the distribution of craft hemp flower....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
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| IN | HB1064 | Intro | Medicaid reimbursement of DME. Specifies Medicaid reimbursement rates that are required of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) and a managed care organization for durable and home medical equipment and supplies, prosthe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
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| IN | HB1041 | Intro | Medical cannabis. Permits the use of medical cannabis by persons with serious medical conditions as determined by their physician. Establishes a medical cannabis program to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and dispensing o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
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| IN | HB1422 | Intro | Licensure of art therapists. Provides that art therapy services provided to an individual who receives mental health services or to an individual who receives services from a community mental health center are reimbursable under Medicaid. Provides fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
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| IN | HB1365 | Intro | Medicaid advisory committee member. Adds one member with professional experience caring for individuals with dementia to the Medicaid advisory committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
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| IN | HB1359 | Intro | Medical cannabis pilot program. Establishes a five year medical cannabis pilot program, administered by the state department of health, to permit the use of medical cannabis in Indiana. Imposes a medical cannabis cultivation tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
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| IN | HB1368 | Intro | Restrictions on smoking and vaping. Provides that a person who smokes or vapes in a motor vehicle while a minor is present in the motor vehicle commits a Class B infraction. Enhances the penalty for the offense for certain prior offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
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| IN | HB1335 | Intro | Health care costs. Requires a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center to provide each patient, patient's guardian, or patient's health care representative with a good faith estimate (estimate) of all charges and fees associated with certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
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| IN | HB1300 | Intro | Administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Allows a pharmacist to dispense auto-injectable epinephrine by standing order to a person who: (1) presents a certificate of completion from a specified course of instruction to the pharmacist at the tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
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| IN | HB1351 | Intro | Tobacco and vaping. For purposes of IC 7.1 and the provisions of IC 35 concerning sales and distribution of tobacco delivery systems to minors, defines "tobacco delivery systems" as any of the following: (1) A product containing tobacco or nicotine, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
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| IN | HB1185 | Intro | Prescription drug donation repositories. Establishes the prescription drug donation repository program (program) to allow a person to donate prescription drugs and supplies to a central repository or local repository for use by an individual who is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
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| IN | HB1322 | Intro | Mental and behavioral health matters. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to lead a statewide mental health initiative to provide support and guidance for schools regarding mental and behavioral health. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
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| IN | HB1205 | Intro | Smoking and vaping restrictions. Raises the age from 18 years of age to 21 years of age for prohibitions and crimes concerning the sale, purchase, and possession of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Makes a corresponding change to the laws conce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1020 | Intro | End of life options. Allows individuals with a terminal illness who meet certain requirements to make a request to an attending physician for medication that the individual may self-administer to end the individual's life. Specifies requirements a ph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1231 | Intro | Prescription price. Requires a retail pharmacy, before dispensing a prescription, to inform an insured patient of the cost of the drug or device without insurance or an applicable discount, if the cost of the drug or device is less than the copayment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1230 | Intro | Health care provider billing requirements. Requires a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center to provide a patient written notice before a service may be provided if the provider who is to provide the service is out of the patient's health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1236 | Intro | Prohibition on risk based managed care programs. Extends the prohibition against the inclusion of certain Medicaid recipients in: (1) risk based managed care programs; or (2) capitated managed care programs; from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1216 | Intro | Cannabis regulation. Establishes a medical marijuana program (program), and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1183 | Intro | Mental health diagnosis. Provides a definition of "mental health diagnosis" that is applicable to licensed clinical addiction counselors, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors. Provides that if a clinic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
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| IN | HB1084 | Intro | Newborn screening for cytomegalovirus. Requires every infant to be screened for cytomegalovirus at the earliest feasible time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
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| IN | HB1141 | Intro | Birth control prescriptions. Allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives and hormonal contraceptive patches (contraceptives). Establishes requirements for pharmacists who want to prescribe and dispense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
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| IN | HB1124 | Intro | Ban on sale of flavored tobacco. Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and their components, including: (1) cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco; and (2) tobacco products that have a characterizing flavor. Defines "chara...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1136 | Intro | Medicaid managed care. Specifies that a managed care organization shall cover and pay for claims from an emergency department for an individual's emergency medical condition in compliance with federal law, including: (1) Medicaid claims that have bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1150 | Intro | Indiana state board of nursing. Provides that two of the registered nurses appointed to the Indiana state board of nursing (board) must be advanced practice registered nurses, and provides that one of the advanced practice registered nurses must have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1146 | Intro | Health care service cost. Requires provider facilities and certain health care practitioners to provide to patients the cost of scheduled health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1110 | Intro | Health workforce student loan repayment program. Establishes the following: (1) The health workforce student loan repayment program (program). (2) The health workforce council (council). (3) The health workforce student loan repayment program fund (f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1163 | Intro | Medical marijuana. Establishes a medical marijuana program (program), and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1137 | Intro | Addiction treatment medications. Requires that a substance abuse medication in various treatment programs be a long acting medication. (Current law requires the medication be a long acting, nonaddictive medication.) Provides for a uniform definition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
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| IN | HB1250 | Intro | Implicit bias in medicine. Requires the medical education board to establish an education program for first year medical students that addresses implicit bias in the delivery of health care services to different racial and ethnic minority groups in I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-07
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| IN | HB1087 | Intro | Organ donation. Provides that an individual may make an anatomical gift to an unspecified individual who is currently on an organ transplant wait list maintained by a hospital located in Indiana. Provides that if the anatomical gift cannot be used fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-07
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| IN | HB1248 | Intro | Postpartum Medicaid for pregnant women. Provides that Medicaid is available to an eligible pregnant woman for the duration of the pregnancy and for the one year postpartum period that begins on the last day of the pregnancy, without regard to any cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-07
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| IN | HB1241 | Intro | Bed bug abatement. Repeals statutes concerning state and local programs for pest and vector abatement. Allows: (1) the executive board of the state department of health to adopt rules; and (2) the board of a municipal corporation and the health and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-07
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