Mississippi House Bill 606 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Provide For The Licensure Of Pain Management Facilities By The State Department Of Health And The State Board Of Medical Licensure; To Require That Pain Management Facilities Be Owned By A Physician Who Has A Full And Active License To Practice Medicine; To Require That One Of The Owners Be Physically Present Practicing Medicine In The Facility For At Least Fifty Percent Of The Time That Patients Are Present In The Facility; To Require That The Physician Who Is Practicing In The Facility Must Hold Board Certification In Certain Pain Management Subspecialties; To Provide That A Pain Management Facility Shall Accept Private Health Insurance As One Of The Facility's Allowable Forms Of Payment For Goods Or Services Provided; To Provide That If The Pain Management Facility Is Operating Under A License Issued By The State Department Of Health, The Department Shall Include And Enforce The Provisions Of This Act As Additional Conditions Of That Licensure; To Provide That If The Pain Management Facility Is Operating As The Private Office Or Clinic Of A Physician, The State Board Of Medical Licensure Shall Enforce The Provisions Of This Act; To Provide A Penalty For Violations Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.

Pain management facilities; provide for licensure of.

Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-13	House	Referred To Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0606.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0606IN.htm