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Amend CSSB 104 by adding the following new SECTION,
appropriately numbered, and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of
the bill accordingly:
SECTION ___. Subsection (b), Section 154.006, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) A profile must contain the following information on each
physician:
(1) the name of each medical school attended and the
dates of:
(A) graduation; or
(B) Fifth Pathway designation and completion of
the Fifth Pathway Program;
(2) a description of all graduate medical education in
the United States or Canada;
(3) any specialty certification held by the physician
and issued by a medical licensing board that is a member of the
American Board of Medical Specialties or the Bureau of Osteopathic
Specialists;
(4) the number of years the physician has actively
practiced medicine in:
(A) the United States or Canada; and
(B) this state;
(5) the name of each hospital in this state in which
the physician has privileges;
(6) the physician's primary practice location;
(7) the type of language translating services,
including translating services for a person with impairment of
hearing, that the physician provides at the physician's primary
practice location;
(8) whether the physician participates in the Medicaid
program;
(9) a description of any conviction for a felony, a
Class A or Class B misdemeanor, or a Class C misdemeanor involving
moral turpitude during the 10-year period preceding the date of the
profile;
(10) a description of any charges reported to the
board during the 10-year period preceding the date of the profile to
which the physician has pleaded no contest, for which the physician
is the subject of deferred adjudication or pretrial diversion, or
in which sufficient facts of guilt were found and the matter was
continued by a court;
(11) a description of any disciplinary action against
the physician by the board during the 10-year period preceding the
date of the profile;
(12) a description of any disciplinary action against
the physician by a medical licensing board of another state during
the 10-year period preceding the date of the profile;
(13) a description of the final resolution taken by
the board on medical malpractice claims or complaints required to
be opened by the board under Section 164.201;
(14) whether the physician's patient service areas are
accessible to disabled persons, as defined by federal law; [and]
(15) a description of any formal complaint against the
physician initiated and filed under Section 164.005 and the status
of the complaint; and
(16) a description of any medical malpractice claim
against the physician, not including a description of any offers by
the physician to settle the claim, for which the physician was found
liable, a jury awarded monetary damages to the claimant, and any
such award was determined to be final, and not subject to further
appeal.