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Health and Medical Services

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Acquired brain injuries, services for, legislative task force on - HCR 67
Assault 3rd degree, fire and EMS personnel added - HB 216
Bioterrorism,
  • assessment of educational needs regarding - HB 199
  • risk assessment and preparedness for - HB 199
Body
  • piercing, parental consent for - HB 164: HCS
  • piercing, written notarized parental consent for - HB 164
Cancer, task force to study - SCR 82
Center of Excellence in Rural Health, maintenance of - SB 118
Childhood immunization registry, permit establishment of - HB 241; HB 241: HCS, HFA (1)
Compassionate care programs, coordination of - SR 33
Dentist license to practice, immediate temporary suspension, authority for - SB 46: SCS
Dentist's license to practice, immediate temporary suspension, authority for - SB 46
Dialysis technician, regulation of - HB 184: SFA(1)
Dialysis,
  • board to require credential for - HB 184: HCS
  • credential for person providing care for - HB 184
Dispense prescription drugs, permit nurses and physicians assistants to - SB 160: SFA(5)
Division
  • of Community Health Services, creation of - SB 84
  • of Long Term Care, creation of - SB 84
Emergency medical technicians, epinephrine administration by - SB 33
Engineers, site evaluations and design evaluations of on-site sewage disposal systems, performance o - HB 103: HFA(1)
Executive Order 2000-1005, confirmation of - HB 125
Fetal wrongful death - SB 157: SFA(1)
Funding for emergency medical services, task force study of - HCR 89
Group insurance coverage, continuation, termination, and replacement of - HB 352
Harm reduction program, creation of - SB 35
Health
  • care provider, insurance reimbursement from - SB 130; SB 98: SCS
  • insurance purchasing outlet - HB 83
  • insurance, income tax deduction for vouchers - HB 84
  • insurance, overpayment of claim - SB 98
  • plans, state employees, lack of specialists, create an emergency - HB 97: HFA(4),(6)
  • records, sending and certification - HB 75: HFA(2),(3)
  • trust fund, constitutional amendment to establish - HB 387
Healthcare
  • shortage task force, reduce membership of - HCR 2: HFA(5)
  • workforce shortage, expansion of task force to study - HCR 2: HFA(3),(4)
  • workforce shortage, task force to study, expansion of - HCR 2: HCS
HIV,
  • continuing education, requirements for - HB 140: HCA(1)
  • pregnant women and newborns, testing of - SB 153
HIV/AIDS, continuing education related to - HB 140
Home
  • and community based care, Medicaid provision of - HB 174: SFA(1); HB 184: SFA (3)
  • health agency, termination of services by - HR 68
  • health, assistance with finding alternative care - HR 68: HCS
  • health, termination, sufficient notice prior to - HR 68: HCS
Hospital Medical Errors Task Force, creation of - HCR 24
Human service transportation delivery, broker required to post surety bond - HB 61
Insurance coverage of anesthesia and hospital charges for dental procedures, requirement for - SB 74
Insurance, denials, information contained in - SB 174
Kentucky
  • Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Board, term limits for members of - SB 13
Long term care insurance, coverage for assisted living communities and adult day care services - SB 109; HB 174
Manufactured and mobile home communities, permitting of - HB 261
Medicaid
  • budget, appropriations for - SB 173
  • prior authorized drug file, requirements for - SB 92: SFA(1),(2)
  • provider advisory board, expand membership of - SB 158: HFA(1)
Medicaid,
  • drug dispensing fee, definition of average for - SB 92
  • enhanced payment fund, intergovernmental transfers for - HB 359
  • health care provider, medical records maintained by - SB 96
  • nonprior authorization for comparable drugs repealed for - HB 317
  • nonprior authorized drug list criteria for - HB 317
  • oversight advisory council, expansion of - SB 158
  • prescription dispensing fee, rollback of - SB 107, 119
  • provider advisory board, creation - SB 158: SFA(2)
  • provider advisory board, creation of - SB 158: SFA(4)
Medical
  • records, Cabinet for Families and Children, assess - HB 75: HFA(1)
  • records, release required for - HB 128
  • transportation, Transportation Cabinet to study complaint process - HCR 101
Moratorium on advertisement of prescription drugs; request to impose - HCR 62
Multicultural Health Office, creation of - SB 36; HB 34
New drugs, nonprior authorization repealed for - HB 317
Newborn
  • screening, delay requirements for expansion of - SB 31: SCS
  • screening, requirements for - SB 31
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants, Cabinet for Health Services to provide data to - HB 239
Nursing
  • shortage, limit workforce task force study to - HCR 2: HFA(1),(2)
  • Shortage, task force to study - HCR 2
Obstructing emergency medical services - HB 344
Office of Minority Health, created - HB 168
On-site sewage disposal systems, site evaluations & design evaluations, engineers, performance of - HB 103: HFA(2)
Osteopathic scholarship program, award for specialty within - SB 170
Outpatient diagnostic center, certificate of need, exemption from - HB 59
Oxycontin, prescription, requirements for - HB 360: HCS
Pharmaceutical Assistance Program, creation of - SB 103
Pharmacist refusal to dispense abortive medications or devices, unlawful to discriminate for - HB 106
Pharmacist's refusal to dispense abortive medications or devices, discrimination based upon - SB 26
Physician
  • assistant, health benefit plans, services provided coverage under - HB 138
  • assistant, health insurance, surgical assist services covered by - HB 138: HCS
Prescribe or dispense medications or devices that terminate pregnancy, permit refusal of - HB 377: HFA(2)
Prescribing
  • or dispensing medications or devices that cause an abortion, permit refusal of - HB 377: HFA(9),(10)
  • or dispensing medications or devices that terminate pregnancy, permit refusal of - HB 377: HFA(3),(4),(5)
Prescription drugs, sales tax exemption for - SB 70; HB 370
Professional licensure, information required at renewal - HB 376
Psychiatric residential treatment facilities, use of seclusion and restraint by - HR 136
Psychologists,
  • licensure, requirements for - SB 94; SB 94: SFA (4), HCS
  • psychological practitioners, licensure - SB 94: SFA(5)
Reorganization,
  • children with special health care needs, Executive Order 2000-1502 - HB 89
  • Department for Public Health, Executive Order 2000-1621 - HB 167
  • Telehealth Board, Executive Order 2000-1213 - HB 95
Restrictions on dispensing of prescriptions, exception for charitable health care providers - HB 377; HB 377: HCS, HFA (1)
Sexual assault nurse examiner, age of victims to be examined by - SB 49
Sports physicals, performance by physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners - HB 205
Tattooing, amend definition of - HB 164: HFA(1)
Telehealth network, workers' compensation, inclusion of - HB 112: HCS
Telehealth, existing sites, expansion of network to include - HB 112
Tobacco master settlement agreement funds, reallocation of - HB 247
Viagra,
  • pharmacists, limitation on dispensing by - SB 160: HFA(1)
  • pharmacists, limitations on dispensing by - HB 106: HFA(1)

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