SCS/HB 625 - Currently, a collaborative practice arrangement must include provisions providing how the collaborating physician and the advanced practice registered nurse will maintain geographic proximity. This act adds that an arrangement may allow for the waiver of the proximity requirement for no more than twenty-eight days per year in order for the advanced practice registered nurse to provide care at a rural health clinic that is located more than fifty miles from the hospital sponsor. The act provides that nothing in the statute regarding collaborative practice arrangements shall be construed to supercede sections 188.080 or 334.245 prohibiting any person other than a licensed physician to perform or induce an abortion. Performing or inducing an abortion under telemedicine or telehealth, whereby the physician is in a location other than where the patient is located, is not authorized by the collaborative practice arrangement statute or any other provision of law.
This act is similar to SB 330 (2013) and similar to provisions contained in HCS/HB 387 (2013).
JESSICA BAKER