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2020 SESSION

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HB 763 Hospitals; notification to patient of outpatient physical therapy following discharge.

Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Hospitals; notification; physical therapy. Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations requiring hospitals to establish protocols to ensure that any patient scheduled to receive an elective surgical procedure for which the patient can reasonably be expected to require outpatient physical therapy as a follow-up treatment after discharge is informed that he (i) is expected to require outpatient physical therapy as a follow-up treatment and (ii) will be required to select a physical therapy provider prior to being discharged from the hospital.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Hospitals; notification; physical therapy. Requires each hospital that provides services to a patient who may require physical therapy following discharge to provide to the patient at the time the service is scheduled (i) notice that physical therapy may be required following discharge and that, in cases in which physical therapy is required following discharge, the patient will be required to select a physical therapy provider at the time of discharge and (ii) a list of physical therapists to which the hospital may refer patients.