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NH Rev Stat § 329:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:29 - Proceedings of the Medical Review Subcommittee.

    329:29 Proceedings of the Medical Review Subcommittee. –||All proceedings, records, findings and deliberations of the medical review subcommittee related to the investigations of individual licensees are confidential and privileged and shall not be used or available for use or subject to process in any other proceeding. The manner in which the medical review subcommittee and each member thereof deliberates, decides or votes on any matter submitted to it is likewise confidential and privileged and shall not be the subject of inquiry in any other proceeding. The medical review subcommittee may provide information to a hospital committee organized to evaluate matters relating to the care and treatment of patients or to reduce morbidity and mortality, in accordance with RSA 151:13-a, and subject to the privileges and immunities set forth in that section. All medical review subcommittee proceedings that are unrelated to individual licensees or individual patient care shall be conducted in public session and shall be subject to RSA 91-A.|||Source. 1975, 245:1. 1985, 348:1. 1995, 286:26. 2009, 206:18, eff. July 1, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:30 - Repealed by 1983, 377:12, III, eff. June 22, 1983.

    329:30 Repealed by 1983, 377:12, III, eff. June 22, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 329:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:31 - Civil Liability; Duty to Warn.

    329:31 Civil Liability;  Duty to Warn. –||I. A physician licensed under this chapter has a duty to warn of, or to take reasonable precautions to provide protection from, a client's violent behavior when the client has communicated to such physician a serious threat of physical violence against a clearly identified or reasonably identifiable victim or victims, or a serious threat of substantial damage to real property.||II. The duty may be discharged by, and no monetary liability or cause of action may arise against, a physician licensed under this chapter if the physician makes reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim or victims, notifies the police department closest to the client's or potential victim's residence, or obtains civil commitment of the client to the state mental health system.||III. No monetary liability and no cause of action may arise concerning client privacy or confidentiality against a physician licensed under this chapter for information disclosed to third parties in an effort to discharge a duty under paragraph II.||IV. For purposes of this section, "physician" shall include persons providing treatment under the supervision of a physician licensed under this chapter.|||Source. 1986, 175:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:31-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:31-a - Certain Contract Restrictions Upon Physicians Unenforceable.

    329:31-a Certain Contract Restrictions Upon Physicians Unenforceable. –||Any contract or agreement which creates or established the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a physician licensed by the board to practice in this state, which includes any restriction to the right of such physician to also practice medicine in any geographic area for any period of time after the termination of such partnership, employment, or professional relationship shall be void and unenforceable with respect to said restriction; provided however, that nothing herein shall render void or unenforceable the remaining provision of any such contract or agreement. The requirements of this section shall apply to new contracts or renewals of contracts entered into on or after the effective date of this section.|||Source. 2016, 194:1, eff. Aug. 5, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:31-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:31-b - Prohibition on Balance Billing; Payment for Reasonable Value of Services.

    329:31-b Prohibition on Balance Billing;  Payment for Reasonable Value of Services. –||I. When a commercially insured patient is covered by a managed care plan as defined under RSA 420-J:3, XXV, a health care provider performing anesthesiology, radiology, emergency medicine, or pathology services shall not balance bill the patient for fees or amounts other than copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance, if the service is performed in a hospital or ambulatory surgical center that is in-network under the patient's health insurance plan. This prohibition shall apply whether or not the health care provider is contracted with the patient's insurance carrier.||II. Pursuant to paragraph I, fees for health care services submitted to an insurance carrier for payment shall be limited to a commercially reasonable value, based on payments for similar services from New Hampshire insurance carriers to New Hampshire health care providers.||III. In the event of a dispute between a provider and an insurance carrier relative to the reasonable value of a service under this section, the insurance commissioner shall have exclusive jurisdiction under RSA 420-J:8-e to determine if the fee is commercially reasonable. The provider and the insurance carrier shall each make best efforts to resolve any dispute prior to applying to the insurance commissioner for resolution, which shall include presenting to the other party evidence supporting its contention that the fee level it is proposing is commercially reasonable. The department of insurance may require the parties to engage in mediation prior to rendering a decision.|||Source. 2018, 356:1, eff. July 1, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:32 - Title.

    329:32 Title. –||This act may be known and cited as the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act."|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:33 - Definitions.

    329:33 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Department" means the department of health and human services.||II. "Medical facility" means any licensed public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institution, health care facility, physician's office, infirmary, dispensary, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or other institution or location wherein medical care is provided to any person.||III. "Partial-birth abortion" means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion:||(a) Deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and||(b) Performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.||IV. "Physician" means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy legally authorized to practice medicine and surgery licensed by the state in which the doctor performs such activity, or any other individual legally authorized by the state to perform abortions; provided, however, that any individual who is not a physician or not otherwise legally authorized by the state to perform abortions, but who nevertheless directly performs a partial-birth abortion, shall be subject to the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:34 - Prohibition; Limitations.

    329:34 Prohibition;  Limitations. –||I. A person shall not knowingly perform or attempt to perform a partial-birth abortion.||II. No person shall perform or induce a partial-birth abortion on a viable fetus unless such person is a physician and has a documented referral from another physician not legally or financially affiliated with the physician performing or inducing the abortion and both physicians determine that the life of the mother is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:35 - Reporting.

    329:35 Reporting. –||I. If a physician determines in accordance with the provisions of RSA 329:34, II that a partial-birth abortion is necessary and performs a partial-birth abortion on the woman, the physician shall report such determination and the reasons for such determination in writing to the medical facility in which the abortion is performed for inclusion in the report of the medical facility to the department; or if the abortion is not performed in a medical facility, the physician shall report the reasons for such determination in writing to the department as part of the written report made by the physician to the department. The physician shall retain a copy of the written reports required under this section for not less than 5 years.||II. Failure to report under this section shall not subject the physician to criminal or civil penalties under RSA 329:36 and 329:37.||III. Paragraph II shall not preclude sanctions, disciplinary action, or any other appropriate action by the board.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:36 - Criminal Penalties.

    329:36 Criminal Penalties. –||I. In addition to other penalties under this chapter, any person who intentionally or knowingly violates this subdivision shall be guilty of a class B felony.||II. Any physician who intentionally or knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined not less than $10,000 nor more than $100,000 under this subdivision, or be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than 10 years, or both.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:37 - Civil Penalties.

    329:37 Civil Penalties. –||I. The father, if married to the mother at the time she receives a partial-birth abortion procedure, and, if the mother has not attained the age of 18 years at the time of the abortion, the maternal grandparents of the fetus may in a civil action obtain appropriate relief, unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or the plaintiff consented to the abortion.||II. Such relief shall include:||(a) Money damages for all injuries, psychological and physical, occasioned by the violation of this subdivision; and||(b) Statutory damages equal to 3 times the cost of the partial-birth abortion.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:38 - Review by Board.

    329:38 Review by Board. –||I. A physician-defendant accused of an offense under this subdivision may seek a hearing before the board as to whether the physician's conduct was necessary to save the life of the mother whose life was endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.||II. The findings on this issue are admissible on this issue at the civil and criminal trials of the physician-defendant. Upon a motion of the physician-defendant, the court shall delay the beginning of the trial for not more than 30 days to permit such a hearing to take place.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:39 - Penalties for Ambulatory Health Care Facilities.

    329:39 Penalties for Ambulatory Health Care Facilities. –||I. An ambulatory health care facility licensed pursuant to RSA 151 in which the partial-birth abortion is performed in violation of this subdivision shall be subject to immediate revocation of its license by the department.||II. An ambulatory health care facility licensed pursuant to RSA 151 in which the partial-birth abortion is performed in violation of this subdivision shall lose all state funding for 3 years and shall be required to reimburse the state for funds from the fiscal year in which the partial-birth abortion was performed.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:40 - Prosecutorial Exclusion.

    329:40 Prosecutorial Exclusion. –||A woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed may not be prosecuted under this subdivision for a conspiracy to violate RSA 329:34.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:41 - Construction.

    329:41 Construction. –||I. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion.||II. It is not the intention of this subdivision to make lawful an abortion that is currently unlawful.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:42 - Severability.

    329:42 Severability. –||If any provision of this subdivision or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the subdivision which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this subdivision are declared to be severable.|||Source. 2012, 283:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:43 - Definitions.

    329:43 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the fetus. Such use, prescription, or means is not an abortion if done with the intent to:||(a) Save the life or preserve the health of the fetus;||(b) Remove a dead fetus caused by spontaneous abortion; or||(c) Remove an ectopic pregnancy.||II. "Attempt to perform" means an act or omission of a statutorily required act that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or inducement of an abortion.||III. "Conception" means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum.||IV. "Gestational age" means the time that has elapsed since the first day of the woman's last menstrual period.||V. "Major bodily function" includes, but is not limited to, functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, and digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions.||VI. "Medical facility" means any public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institution, health care facility, physician's office, infirmary, dispensary, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or other institution or location wherein medical care is provided to any person.||VII. "Health care provider" means any person who provides health care services. The term includes but is not limited to medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, nurses, or any employee of a medical facility.||VIII. "Pregnant" or "pregnancy" means the female reproductive condition of having one or more developing embryos or fetuses implanted in the uterus or elsewhere in the female body.||IX. "Probable gestational age" means what, in reasonable medical judgment, will with reasonable probability be the gestational age of the fetus at the time the abortion is considered, performed, or attempted.||X. "Reasonable medical judgment" means that medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent health care provider in the community, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved.||XI. "Fetus" means an unborn offspring, from the embryo stage which is the end of the twentieth week after conception or, in the case of in vitro fertilization, the end of the twentieth week after implantation, until birth.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:44 - Prohibition.

    329:44 Prohibition. –||I. Except in the case of a medical emergency as specifically defined in paragraph III, no abortion shall be performed, induced, or attempted by any health care provider unless a health care provider has first made a determination of the probable gestational age of the fetus. In making such a determination, the health care provider shall make such inquiries of the pregnant woman and perform or cause to be performed all such medical examinations, imaging studies, and tests as a reasonably prudent health care provider in the community, knowledgeable about the medical facts and conditions of both the woman and the fetus involved, would consider necessary to perform and consider in making an accurate diagnosis with respect to gestational age, provided, however, that the health care provider shall conduct an obstetric ultrasound examination of the patient for the purpose of making the determination.||II. Except in a medical emergency as specifically defined in paragraph III, no health care provider shall knowingly perform, induce, or attempt to perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman when the probable gestational age of her fetus has been determined to be at least 24 weeks or in the absence of a determination by a health care provider pursuant to paragraph I as to the fetus' probable gestational age.||III. For the purposes of this subdivision only, "medical emergency" means a condition in which an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, or when continuation of the pregnancy will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function, as defined in RSA 329:43, V, of the pregnant woman.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:45 - Reporting.

    329:45 Reporting. –||I. Any health care provider who performs an abortion under this subdivision shall report, in writing, to the medical facility in which the abortion is performed the reason for the determination that a medical emergency existed. The health care provider's written report shall be included in a written report from the medical facility to the department of health and human services. If the abortion is not performed in a medical facility, the health care provider shall report, in writing, the reason for the determination that a medical emergency existed to the department of health and human services as part of the written report made by the health care provider to the department. The health care provider and the medical facility shall retain a copy of the written reports required under this section for not less than 5 years.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:46 - Criminal Penalties.

    329:46 Criminal Penalties. –||Any health care provider who knowingly performs or induces an abortion in violation of this subdivision and knows that the fetus has a gestational age of at least 24 weeks, or consciously disregards a substantial risk that the fetus has a gestational age of at least 24 weeks, shall be guilty of a class B felony and, in addition to any other penalties the court may impose, be fined not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:47 - Civil Remedies.

    329:47 Civil Remedies. –||I. The woman, the father of the fetus if married to the mother at the time she receives an abortion in violation of this subdivision, and/or, if the mother has not attained the age of 18 years at the time of the abortion, the maternal grandparents of the fetus may in a civil action obtain appropriate relief, unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or, if brought by the maternal grandparents, the maternal grandparents consented to the abortion.||II. Such relief shall include monetary damages for all psychological and physical injuries caused by the violation of this subdivision.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:48 - Review by New Hampshire Board of Medicine.

    329:48 Review by New Hampshire Board of Medicine. –||I. A defendant health care provider accused of violating this subdivision may seek a hearing before the board of medicine as to whether the health care provider's conduct was necessary to save the life of the mother whose life was endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself; and/or as to whether the continuation of the pregnancy would have created a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function, as defined in RSA 329:43, V, of the pregnant woman.||II. The findings on this issue are admissible at the criminal and civil trials of the defendant. Upon a motion of the defendant, the court shall delay the beginning of the trial for not more than 30 days to permit such a hearing to take place.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 329:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 329 - Physicians and Surgeons|Section 329:49 - Construction.

    329:49 Construction. –||Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion.|||Source. 2021, 91:39, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|