Bill Text: MI SB0901 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Health occupations; podiatrists; definitions and terms associated with the practice of podiatric medicine and surgery; modify. Amends sec. 18001 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.18001).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-27 - Assigned Pa 0355'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0901 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0901-Chaptered.html

Act No. 355

Public Acts of 2018

Approved by the Governor

November 15, 2018

Filed with the Secretary of State

November 15, 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 13, 2019

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Senators Stamas, Shirkey, Hune, Marleau, Knezek, Hertel and Robertson

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 901

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 18001 (MCL 333.18001), as amended by 2016 PA 379.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 18001. (1) As used in this part:

(a) “Medical care services” means those services within the scope of practice of podiatric physicians licensed by the board, except those services that the board prohibits or otherwise restricts within a practice agreement or determines shall not be delegated by a podiatric physician without endangering the health and safety of patients as provided for in section 18048.

(b) “Participating podiatrist” means a podiatric physician or a podiatric physician designated by a group of podiatric physicians under section 18049 to represent that group.

(c) “Podiatric physician” means an individual who is licensed under this article to engage in the practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery.

(d) “Practice agreement” means an agreement described in section 18047.

(e) “Practice as a physician’s assistant” means the practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery with a participating podiatric physician under a practice agreement.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (g), “practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery” means any of the following:

(i) The evaluation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of conditions of the lower extremities, including local manifestations of systemic disease in the human foot and ankle, by attending to and advising patients and through the use of devices, diagnostic tests, drugs and biologicals, surgical procedures, or other means. The evaluation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of conditions of the lower extremities may include osseous and soft tissue procedures that address the pathology of the foot, ankle, and the contiguous attachments below the tibial tuberosity.

(ii) The treatment of ulcerations below the tibial tuberosity and of human nail diseases, callosities, and verruca.

(g) “Practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery” does not include amputations proximal to the tibiotalar joint, proximal osseous procedures that do not involve the tibiotalar joint, or the administration of intravenous sedation or general anesthesia.

(h) “Task force” means the joint task force created in section 17025.

(2) In addition to the definitions in this part, article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction applicable to all articles in this code and part 161 contains definitions applicable to this part.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor