Bill Text: NH HB1520 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the membership of the medical review subcommittee.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-10 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/10/2016 House Journal 16 P. 6 [HB1520 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1520-Introduced.html
HB 1520 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
16-2679
01/06
HOUSE BILL 1520
AN ACT relative to the membership of the medical review subcommittee.
SPONSORS: Rep. Sherman, Rock. 24; Rep. Berrien, Rock. 18; Rep. Fothergill, Coos 1; Sen. Stiles, Dist 24; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill increases the membership of the medical review subcommittee by adding 2 additional physician members.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2679
01/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to the membership of the medical review subcommittee.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Disciplinary Action; Remedial Proceedings; Medical Review Subcommittee. Amend RSA 329:17, V-a to read as follows:
V-a. A medical review subcommittee of [11] 13 members shall be nominated by the board of medicine and appointed by the governor and council. The subcommittee shall consist of one member of the board of medicine and [10] 12 other persons, 3 of whom shall be public members, one of whom shall be a physician assistant, and [6] 8 of whom shall be physicians. Any public member of the subcommittee shall be a person who is not, and never was, a member of the medical profession or the spouse of any such person, and who does not have, and never has had, a material financial interest in either the provision of medical services or an activity directly related to medicine, including the representation of the board or profession for a fee at any time during the 5 years preceding appointment. The terms of the public members shall be staggered so that no 2 public members' terms expire in the same year. The subcommittee members shall be appointed for 3-year terms, and shall serve no more than 2 terms. Upon referral by the board, the subcommittee shall review disciplinary actions reported to the board under paragraphs II-V of this section, except that matters concerning a medical director involved in a current internal or external grievance pursuant to RSA 420-J shall not be reviewed until the grievance process has been completed. Following review of each case, the subcommittee shall make recommendations to the board. Funds shall be appropriated from the general fund for use by the subcommittee to investigate allegations under paragraphs I-V of this section. The board shall employ a physician as a medical review subcommittee investigator who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The salary of the medical review subcommittee investigator shall be established by RSA 94:1-a.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
