HB468 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Becky Nordgren

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Lyme Disease, physicians authorized to prescribe long-term antibiotic therapy, discipline by the Medical Examiners Board precluded under certain conditions, insurance coverage

Description

This bill would authorize physicians to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy for a therapeutic purpose to eliminate infection or to control a patient's symptoms upon making a clinical diagnosis that the patient has Lyme disease, another tick borne disease, or displays certain symptoms.

This bill would provide that a physician prescribing long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease or other tick borne disease is not subject to discipline by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners and would require the board to post this information on its public website.

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Subjects

Health