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WI Stat § 146.87 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.|146.87 - Federal registration numbers for prescribers of controlled substances.

146.87  Federal registration numbers for prescribers of controlled substances. (1) In this section:(a) “Controlled substance" has the meaning given in s. 961.01 (4).(b) “Federal registration number" means the registration number required under 21 USC 822 for practitioners who prescribe controlled substances.(c) “Health care provider" has the meaning given in 42 USC 1320d (3).(d) “Practitioner" has the meaning given in s. 450.01 (17).(e) “Prescription order" has the meaning given in s. 450.01 (21). (2) Beginning on the first day on which small health plans are required to comply with a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulation under 42 USC 1320d-2 (b) that requires use of a unique identifier for health care providers, no person may do any of the following:(a) Require that a practitioner include his or her federal registration number on a prescription order for a drug or device that is not a controlled substance.(b) Disclose a practitioner's federal registration number without the practitioner's consent for any purpose other than complying with or enforcing federal or state law related to controlled substances.(c) Use a federal registration number to identify or monitor the prescribing practices of a practitioner, except for the purpose of complying with or enforcing federal or state law related to controlled substances. (3) A person who violates this section may be required to forfeit not more than $10,000 for each violation.History:  2003 a. 272.
WI Stat § 146.905 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.|146.905 - Reduction in fees prohibited.

146.905  Reduction in fees prohibited. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), a health care provider, as defined in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p), that provides a service or a product to an individual with coverage under a disability insurance policy, as defined in s. 632.895 (1) (a), may not reduce or eliminate or offer to reduce or eliminate coinsurance or a deductible required under the terms of the disability insurance policy. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if payment of the total fee would impose an undue financial hardship on the individual receiving the service or product.History:  1991 a. 250; 1995 a. 225; 2009 a. 28.
WI Stat § 146.91 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.|146.91 - Long-term care insurance.

146.91  Long-term care insurance. (1) In this section, “long-term care insurance" means insurance that provides coverage both for an extended stay in a nursing home and home health services for a person with a chronic condition. The insurance may also provide coverage for other services that assist the insured person in living outside a nursing home including but not limited to adult day care and continuing care retirement communities. (2) The department, with the advice of the council on long-term care insurance, the office of the commissioner of insurance, the board on aging and long-term care and the department of employee trust funds, shall design a program that includes the following:(a) Subsidizing premiums for persons purchasing long-term care insurance, based on the purchasers' ability to pay.(b) Reinsuring by the state of policies issued in this state by long-term care insurers. (3) The department shall collect any data on health care costs and utilization that the department determines to be necessary to design the program under sub. (2). (6) The department, with the advice of the council on long-term care insurance, may examine use of tax incentives for the sale and purchase of long-term care insurance.History:  1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 56; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 146.95 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.|146.95 - Patient visitation.

146.95  Patient visitation. (1) Definitions. In this section:(a) “Health care provider" has the meaning given in s. 155.01 (7).(b) “Inpatient health care facility" has the meaning given in s. 252.14 (1) (d).(c) “Treatment facility" has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (19). (2)  Patient-designated visitors. (a) Any individual who is 18 years of age or older may identify to a health care provider at an inpatient health care facility at any time, either orally or in writing, those persons with whom the individual wishes to visit while the individual is a patient at the inpatient health care facility. Except as provided in par. (b), no inpatient health care facility may deny visitation during the inpatient health care facility's regular visiting hours to any person identified by the individual.(b) Subject to s. 51.61 for a treatment facility, an inpatient health care facility may deny visitation with a patient to any person if any of the following applies:1. The inpatient health care facility or a health care provider determines that the patient may not receive any visitors.2. The inpatient health care facility or a health care provider determines that the presence of the person would endanger the health or safety of the patient.3. The inpatient health care facility determines that the presence of the person would interfere with the primary operations of the inpatient health care facility.4. The patient has subsequently expressed in writing to a health care provider at the inpatient health care facility that the patient no longer wishes to visit with the person. Unless subd. 2. applies, an inpatient health care facility may not under this subdivision deny visitation to the person based on a claim by someone other than a health care provider that the patient has orally expressed that the patient no longer wishes to visit with that person.History:  1997 a. 153.
WI Stat § 146.96 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.|146.96 - Uniform claim processing form.

146.96  Uniform claim processing form. Beginning no later than July 1, 2004, every health care provider, as defined in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p), shall use the uniform claim processing form developed by the commissioner of insurance under s. 601.41 (9) (b) when submitting a claim to an insurer.History:  2001 a. 109; 2009 a. 28.
WI Stat § 148.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.01 - Definition.

148.01  Definition. In this chapter, “medical society" means the State Medical Society of Wisconsin and any county medical society organized or continued under this chapter.History:  1987 a. 13; 2001 a. 103.
WI Stat § 148.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.015 - State society.

148.015  State society. (1) The State Medical Society of Wisconsin is continued with the general powers of a corporation. It may from time to time adopt, alter, and enforce constitution, bylaws, and regulations for admission and expulsion of members, election of officers, and management. (2) A member expelled from a county medical society may appeal to the state society, whose decision shall be final.History:  1987 a. 13; Stats. 1987 s. 148.015; 2001 a. 103.The transfer of all the assets and liabilities of the State Medical Society's Wisconsin Physicians Service was precluded by the Society's statutory duty of exclusive control, since the transfer would result in separation of the Society's assets from those of the new corporation and permit use of Physicians Service assets and structure for purposes not consistent with the legislative intent of ch. 148. State Medical Society v. Comm. of Insurance, 70 Wis. 2d 144, 233 N.W.2d 470 (1975).
WI Stat § 148.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.02 - County societies.

148.02  County societies. (1) The physicians and surgeons, not less than 5 in number, of the several counties, except those counties where a county medical society already exists, may meet at such time and place at the county seat as a majority agree upon and organize a county medical society. When so organized, a county medical society:(a) Shall be a body corporate by the name of the medical society of the county for which it is organized.(b) Shall have the general powers of a corporation.(c) May take, by purchase or gift, and hold real and personal property. (1m) All County medical societies organized prior to June 7, 1878, shall have the powers and privileges conferred by this chapter. (2) Physicians and surgeons who have received a license from the medical examining board shall be entitled to meet to organize or become members of the county medical society. (3) If there is not a sufficient number of physicians and surgeons in any county to form a county medical society they may associate with those of adjoining counties, and the physicians and surgeons of not more than 15 adjoining counties may organize a county medical society under this chapter, meeting at such time and place as a majority agree upon. (4) A county medical society may from time to time adopt, alter and enforce constitution, bylaws and regulations for the admission and expulsion of members, election of officers, and management, not inconsistent with the constitution, bylaws and regulations of the state society.History:  1971 c. 164 s. 91; 1987 a. 13; 1997 a. 254.
WI Stat § 148.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.03 - Service insurance corporations for health care.

148.03  Service insurance corporations for health care. The state medical society or, in a manner approved by the state society, a county society, may establish in one or more counties of this state a service insurance corporation for health care under ch. 613.History:  1973 c. 275; 1975 c. 223.NOTE:  Chapter 223, laws of 1975, which repealed and recreated this section contained notes on this section and the revision.
WI Stat § 148.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.04 - Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisions.

148.04  Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisions. In ss. 148.04 to 148.17: (1) “Director or officer" means any of the following:(a) A natural person who is or was a director or officer of a medical society.(b) A natural person who, while a director or officer of a medical society, is or was serving at the medical society's request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, member of any governing or decision-making committee, employee or agent of another medical society or corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.(c) A natural person who, while a director or officer of a medical society, is or was serving an employee benefit plan because his or her duties to the medical society also imposed duties on, or otherwise involved services by, the person to the plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan.(d) Unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a director or officer. (2) “Expenses" include fees, costs, charges, disbursements, attorney fees and any other expenses incurred in connection with a proceeding. (3) “Liability" includes the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, forfeiture, or fine, including any excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan, plus costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814, and reasonable expenses. (4) “Party" means a natural person who was or is, or who is threatened to be made, a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding. (5) “Proceeding" means any threatened, pending or completed civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit, arbitration or other proceeding, whether formal or informal, which involves foreign, federal, state or local law and which is brought by or in the right of the medical society or by any other person.History:  1987 a. 13; 2003 a. 139.
WI Stat § 148.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.05 - Mandatory indemnification.

148.05  Mandatory indemnification. (1) A medical society shall indemnify a director or officer, to the extent he or she has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of a proceeding, for all reasonable expenses incurred in the proceeding if the director or officer was a party because he or she is a director or officer of the medical society. (2) (a) In cases not included under sub. (1), a medical society shall indemnify a director or officer against liability incurred by the director or officer in a proceeding to which the director or officer was a party because he or she is a director or officer of the medical society, unless liability was incurred because the director or officer breached or failed to perform a duty he or she owes to the medical society and the breach or failure to perform constitutes any of the following:1. A willful failure to deal fairly with the medical society or its members in connection with a matter in which the director or officer has a material conflict of interest.2. A violation of criminal law, unless the director or officer had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.3. A transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal profit.4. Willful misconduct.(b) Determination of whether indemnification is required under this subsection shall be made under s. 148.06.(c) The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of no contest or an equivalent plea, does not, by itself, create a presumption that indemnification of the director or officer is not required under this subsection. (3) A director or officer who seeks indemnification shall make a written request to the medical society. (4) (a) Indemnification under this section is not required to the extent limited by the medical society's constitution or bylaws under s. 148.09.(b) Indemnification under this section is not required if the director or officer has previously received indemnification or allowance of expenses from any person, including the medical society, in connection with the same proceeding.History:  1987 a. 13.Cooperative indemnification. La Rowe and Weine. WBB Sept. 1988.
WI Stat § 148.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.06 - Determination of right to indemnification.

148.06  Determination of right to indemnification. Unless otherwise provided by the constitution or bylaws or by written agreement between the director or officer and the medical society, the director or officer seeking indemnification under s. 148.05 (2) shall select one of the following means for determining his or her right to indemnification: (1) By majority vote of a quorum of the board of directors consisting of directors not at the time parties to the same or related proceedings. If a quorum of disinterested directors cannot be obtained, by majority vote of a committee duly appointed by the board of directors and consisting solely of 2 or more directors not at the time parties to the same or related proceedings. Directors who are parties to the same or related proceedings may participate in the designation of members of the committee. (2) By independent legal counsel selected by a quorum of the board of directors or its committee in the manner prescribed in sub. (1) or, if unable to obtain such a quorum or committee, by a majority vote of the full board of directors, including directors who are parties to the same or related proceedings. (3) By a panel of 3 arbitrators consisting of one arbitrator selected by those directors entitled under sub. (2) to select independent legal counsel, one arbitrator selected by the director or officer seeking indemnification and one arbitrator selected by the 2 arbitrators previously selected. (4) By an affirmative vote of a majority of members who are entitled to vote and who are present in person or represented by proxy at a meeting at which a quorum is present, if there are members having voting rights. Unless the constitution or bylaws provide otherwise, members holding one-tenth of the votes entitled to be cast, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of members. Membership rights owned by, or voted under the control of, persons who are at the time parties to the same or related proceedings, whether as plaintiffs or defendants or in any other capacity, may not be voted in making the determination. (5) By a court under s. 148.13. (6) By any other method provided for in any additional right to indemnification permitted under s. 148.11.History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.07 - Allowance of expenses as incurred.

148.07  Allowance of expenses as incurred. Upon written request by a director or officer who is a party to a proceeding, a medical society may pay or reimburse his or her reasonable expenses as incurred if the director or officer provides the medical society with all of the following: (1) A written affirmation of his or her good faith belief that he or she has not breached or failed to perform his or her duties to the medical society. (2) A written undertaking, executed personally or on his or her behalf, to repay the allowance and, if required by the medical society, to pay reasonable interest on the allowance to the extent that it is ultimately determined under s. 148.06 that indemnification under s. 148.05 (2) is not required and that indemnification is not ordered by a court under s. 148.13 (2) (b). The undertaking under this subsection shall be an unlimited general obligation of the director or officer and may be accepted without reference to his or her ability to repay the allowance. The undertaking may be secured or unsecured.History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.09 - Medical society may limit indemnification.

148.09  Medical society may limit indemnification. (1) A medical society's obligations to indemnify under s. 148.05 may be limited as follows:(a) With respect to the state medical society or, except as provided in s. 148.02 (4), a county medical society organized under s. 148.02 (1) before June 13, 1987, by an amendment to its constitution or bylaws which becomes effective on or after June 13, 1987.(b) With respect to a county medical society organized under s. 148.02 (1) on or after June 13, 1987, except as provided in s. 148.02 (4), by its constitution or bylaws, including any amendments to its constitution or bylaws. (2) A limitation under sub. (1) applies if the first alleged act of a director or officer for which indemnification is sought occurred while the limitation was in effect.History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.11 - Additional rights to indemnification and allowance of expenses.

148.11  Additional rights to indemnification and allowance of expenses. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), ss. 148.05 and 148.07 do not preclude any additional right to indemnification or allowance of expenses that a director or officer may have under any of the following:(a) The constitution or bylaws.(b) A written agreement between the director or officer and the medical society.(c) A resolution of the board of directors.(d) A resolution, after notice, adopted by a majority vote of members who are entitled to vote. (2) Regardless of the existence of an additional right under sub. (1), the medical society may not indemnify a director or officer, or permit a director or officer to retain any allowance of expenses unless it is determined by or on behalf of the medical society that the director or officer did not breach or fail to perform a duty he or she owes to the medical society which constitutes conduct under s. 148.05 (2) (a) 1., 2., 3. or 4. A director or officer who is a party to the same or related proceeding for which indemnification or an allowance of expenses is sought may not participate in a determination under this subsection. (3) Sections 148.04 to 148.17 do not affect a medical society's power to pay or reimburse expenses incurred by a director or officer in any of the following circumstances:(a) As a witness in a proceeding to which he or she is not a party.(b) As a plaintiff or petitioner in a proceeding because he or she is or was an employee, agent, director or officer of the medical society.History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.13 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.13 - Court-ordered indemnification.

148.13  Court-ordered indemnification. (1) Except as provided otherwise by written agreement between the director or officer and the medical society, a director or officer who is a party to a proceeding may apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to another court of competent jurisdiction. Application shall be made for an initial determination by the court under s. 148.06 (5) or for review by the court of an adverse determination under s. 148.06 (1), (2), (3), (4) or (6). After receipt of an application, the court shall give any notice it considers necessary. (2) The court shall order indemnification if it determines any of the following:(a) That the director or officer is entitled to indemnification under s. 148.05 (1) or (2). If the court also determines that the medical society unreasonably refused the director's or officer's request for indemnification, the court shall order the medical society to pay the director's or officer's reasonable expenses incurred to obtain the court-ordered indemnification.(b) That the director or officer is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all the relevant circumstances, regardless of whether indemnification is required under s. 148.05 (2).History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.15 - Indemnification and allowance of expenses of employees and agents.

148.15  Indemnification and allowance of expenses of employees and agents. A medical society may indemnify and allow reasonable expenses of an employee or agent who is not a director or officer to the extent provided by the constitution or bylaws, by general or specific action of the board of directors or by contract.History:  1987 a. 13.
WI Stat § 148.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 148 - Medical societies.|148.17 - Insurance.

148.17  Insurance. A medical society may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is an employee, agent, director or officer of the medical society against liability asserted against and incurred by the individual in his or her capacity as an employee, agent, director or officer, or arising from his or her status as an employee, agent, director or officer, regardless of whether the medical society is required or authorized to indemnify or allow expenses to the individual against the same liability under ss. 148.05, 148.07, 148.11 and 148.15.History:  1987 a. 13.