HB495: requiring physicians to disclose to their patients that they do not make regular hospital visits.

HB 495 – AS INTRODUCED

2009 SESSION

09-0587

01/03

HOUSE BILL 495

AN ACT requiring physicians to disclose to their patients that they do not make regular hospital visits.

SPONSORS: Rep. Dowling, Rock 5; Rep. Taylor, Graf 2

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill requires certain physicians who do not make regular hospital visits to disclose such information to their patients and to obtain the patient’s written acknowledgment that the patient has been so informed.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

09-0587

01/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT requiring physicians to disclose to their patients that they do not make regular hospital visits.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Disclosure That Physician Does not Make Regular Hospital Visits Required. Amend RSA 329 by inserting after section 13-b the following new section:

329:13-c Disclosure That Physician Does not Make Regular Hospital Visits Required. Any physician who is a general practitioner and who does not make regular hospital visits to his or her patients should they be hospitalized shall disclose that fact to his or her patients and shall obtain the patient’ s written acknowledgment that the patient has been so informed. Such disclosure shall be provided upon the patient’s first visit or as soon as practicable.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.