Bill Text: MI HB4582 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health occupations; physicians; licensing process; modify to incorporate interstate medical licensure compact. Amends secs. 17001 & 17501 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17001 & 333.17501) & adds secs. 17011a & 17511a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4583'15
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-03 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [HB4582 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4582-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4582
May 12, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Tedder and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending sections 17001 and 17501 (MCL 333.17001 and 333.17501),
as amended by 2006 PA 161, and by adding sections 17011a and
17511a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 17001. (1) As used in this part:
(a) "Academic institution" means either of the following:
(i) A medical school approved by the board.
(ii) A hospital licensed under article 17 that meets all of
the following requirements:
(A) Was the sole sponsor or a co-sponsor, if each other co-
sponsor is either a medical school approved by the board or a
hospital owned by the federal government and directly operated by
the United States department of veterans' affairs, of not less than
4 postgraduate education residency programs approved by the board
under section 17031(1) for not less than the 3 years immediately
preceding the date of an application for a limited license under
section 16182(2)(c) or an application for a full license under
section 17031(2), provided that at least 1 of the residency
programs is in the specialty area of medical practice, or in a
specialty area that includes the subspecialty of medical practice,
in which the applicant for a limited license proposes to practice
or in which the applicant for a full license has practiced for the
hospital.
(B) Has spent not less than $2,000,000.00 for medical
education during each of the 3 years immediately preceding the date
of an application for a limited license under section 16182(2)(c)
or an application for a full license under section 17031(2). As
used in this subparagraph, "medical education" means the education
of physicians and candidates for degrees or licenses to become
physicians, including, but not limited to, physician staff,
residents, interns, and medical students.
(b) "Electrodiagnostic studies" means the testing of
neuromuscular functions utilizing nerve conduction tests and needle
electromyography. It does not include the use of surface
electromyography.
(c) "Medical care services" means those services within the
scope of practice of physicians who are licensed or authorized by
the board, except those services that the board determines shall
not be delegated by a physician without endangering the health and
safety of patients as provided for in section 17048(3).
(d) "Physician" means an individual who is licensed or
authorized under this article to engage in the practice of
medicine.
(e) "Podiatrist" means an individual who is licensed under
this article to engage in the practice of podiatric medicine and
surgery.
(f) "Practice of medicine" means the diagnosis, treatment,
prevention, cure, or relieving of a human disease, ailment, defect,
complaint, or other physical or mental condition, by attendance,
advice, device, diagnostic test, or other means, or offering,
undertaking, attempting to do, or holding oneself out as able to
do, any of these acts.
(g) "Practice as a physician's assistant" means the practice
of medicine, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric
medicine and surgery performed under the supervision of a physician
or podiatrist licensed under this article.
(h) "Supervision" means that term as defined in section 16109,
except that it also includes the existence of a predetermined plan
for emergency situations, including, but not limited to, the
designation of a physician to supervise a physician's assistant in
the absence of the primary supervising physician.
(i) "Task force" means the joint task force created in section
17025.
(2) In addition to the definitions in this part, article 1
contains definitions and principles of construction applicable to
all articles in this code and part 161 contains definitions
applicable to this part.
Sec. 17011a. (1) An allopathic physician who holds an
expedited license under the interstate medical licensure compact is
authorized to engage in the practice of medicine under this
article.
(2) For purposes of this article, including the obligations of
an individual who is licensed as a physician under this part, an
allopathic physician who holds an expedited license under the
interstate medical licensure compact is considered a physician who
is licensed under this part.
(3) As used in this section, "interstate medical licensure
compact" means the interstate medical licensure compact as enacted
in section 16189.
Sec. 17501. (1) As used in this part:
(a) "Electrodiagnostic studies" means the testing of
neuromuscular functions utilizing nerve conduction tests and needle
electromyography. It does not include the use of surface
electromyography.
(b) "Medical care services" means those services within the
scope
of practice of physicians who are licensed and approved or
authorized by the board, except those services that the board
determines shall not be delegated by a physician without
endangering the health and safety of patients as provided for in
section 17548(3).
(c) "Physician" means an individual who is licensed or
authorized under this article to engage in the practice of
osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(d) "Practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery" means a
separate, complete, and independent school of medicine and surgery
utilizing full methods of diagnosis and treatment in physical and
mental health and disease, including the prescription and
administration of drugs and biologicals, operative surgery,
obstetrics, radiological and other electromagnetic emissions, and
placing special emphasis on the interrelationship of the
musculoskeletal system to other body systems.
(e) "Practice as a physician's assistant" means the practice
of medicine, osteopathic medicine and surgery, and podiatric
medicine and surgery performed under the supervision of a physician
or podiatrist licensed under this article.
(f) "Supervision" has the meaning ascribed to it in section
16109 except that it includes the existence of a predetermined plan
for emergency situations, including, but not limited to, the
designation of a physician to supervise a physician's assistant in
the absence of the primary supervising physician.
(g) "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 the code and part 161 contains
definitions applicable to this part.
Sec. 17511a. (1) An osteopathic physician who holds an
expedited license under the interstate medical licensure compact is
authorized to engage in the practice of osteopathic medicine and
surgery under this article.
(2) For purposes of this article, including the obligations of
an individual who is licensed as a physician under this part, an
osteopathic physician who holds an expedited license under the
interstate medical licensure compact is considered a physician who
is licensed under this part.
(3) As used in this section, "interstate medical licensure
compact" means the interstate medical licensure compact as enacted
in section 16189.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. ____ (request no.
01740'15) of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.
