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MS Code § 41-119-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 119 - Health Information Technology Act|§ 41-119-15. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as provided in this section:   "Electronic health records" or "EHR" means electronically maintained clinical and demographic information, used by a meaningful EHR user.   "Health information technology" or "HIT" means the equipment, software and networks to be used by a meaningful EHR user.   "Acquisition" of HIT systems or other computer or telecommunications equipment or services means the purchase, lease, rental or acquisition in any other manner of HIT systems or any other computer or telecommunications equipment or services used exclusively for HIT.   "Meaningful EHR user" means an eligible professional or eligible hospital that, during the specified reporting period, demonstrates meaningful use of certified EHR technology in a form and manner consistent with certain objectives and measures presented in applicable federal regulations as amended or adopted. These objectives and measures shall include the use of certified EHR.   "Entity" means and includes all the various state agencies, officers, departments, boards, commissions, offices and institutions of the state, but does not include any agency financed entirely by federal funds.
MS Code § 41-119-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 119 - Health Information Technology Act|§ 41-119-17. State agencies required to provide MS-HIN with certain information before acquiring any health information technology

  Before the acquisition of any HIT system, an entity shall provide MS-HIN, at a minimum, description, purpose and intent of the proposed service or system, including a description and specifications of the ability to connect to MS-HIN.   Where existing entities can be used to provide the proposed HIT system, in whole or in part, the submission shall include letters of commitment, memoranda of agreements, or other supporting documentation.   The MS-HIN shall review proposals for acquisition of HIT systems for the purposes contained in Section 41-119-7, and provide guidance to entities including collaborative opportunities with MS-HIN members.   Any acquisition of an HIT system that was approved by the Mississippi Department of Technology Services before April 28, 2010, is exempt from the requirements of Section 41-119-15 and this section.
MS Code § 41-119-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 119 - Health Information Technology Act|§ 41-119-19. Legislative Audit Committee to make certain reports regarding development of electronic health information

 The Legislative Audit Committee (PEER) shall develop and make a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Public Health and Welfare/Medicaid Committees regarding the following electronic health records (EHR) system items:   Evaluate the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the implementation and operations services for the Division of Medicaid and the University Medical Center electronic health records system and e-prescribing system for providers;   Evaluate the proposed expenditures of the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) and the University Medical Center (UMC) regarding electronic health information;   Evaluate the use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for electronic health records system implementation in the State of Mississippi; and   Evaluate the progress in implementing the electronic health records system in the State of Mississippi.   The PEER Committee shall make its report on or before December 1, 2014, including any recommendations for legislation.
MS Code § 41-119-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 119 - Health Information Technology Act|§ 41-119-21. Repeal of Sections 41-119-1 through 41-119-21

 Sections 41-119-1 through 41-119-21 shall stand repealed on July 1, 2019.
MS Code § 41-121-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services|§ 41-121-1. Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Patient's Right to Informed Health Care Choices Act."
MS Code § 41-121-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services|§ 41-121-3. Purpose

 The Legislature finds and declares that:   There are a multitude of professional degrees using the term "doctor," including Medical Doctor (M.D.); Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.); Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.); Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.); Doctor of Optometry (O.D.); Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.); Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.); Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); and other designations which may be used by health care practitioners.   Choosing a health care provider is one of the most important decisions a patient makes, which should be supported by full disclosure from their health care provider. There are differences regarding the training and qualifications required to earn the professional degrees described in and subject to this chapter. These differences often concern the training and skills necessary to correctly detect, diagnose, prevent and treat serious health care conditions.   There is a compelling state interest in patients being promptly and clearly informed of the actual training and qualifications of their health care practitioners who provide health care services. This chapter aims to provide public protection against potentially misleading and deceptive health care advertising that cause patients to have undue expectations regarding their medical treatments and outcomes.
MS Code § 41-121-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services|§ 41-121-7. Requirements

  An advertisement for health care services that names a health care practitioner must identify the type of license held according to the definitions under this chapter. The advertisement shall be free from any and all deceptive or misleading information.   A health care practitioner providing health care services in this state must conspicuously post in their office and affirmatively communicate the practitioner's specific licensure as defined under this chapter. This shall consist of the following: The health care practitioner shall display in his or her office a writing that clearly identifies the type of license held by the health care practitioner. The writing must be of sufficient size so as to be visible and apparent to all current and prospective patients.   A health care practitioner who practices in more than one (1) office shall be required to comply with these requirements in each practice setting.   Health care practitioners working in nonpatient care settings, and who do not have any direct patient care interactions, are not subject to the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 41-121-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services|§ 41-121-9. Violations and enforcement

  Failure to comply with any provision under this section shall constitute a violation under this chapter.   Knowingly aiding, assisting, procuring, employing or advising any unlicensed person or entity to practice or engage in acts contrary to the health care practitioner's degree of licensure shall constitute a violation under this chapter.   Delegating or contracting for the performance of health care services by a health care practitioner when the licensee delegating or contracting for performance knows, or has reason to know, the person does not have the required authority under the person's licensure, shall constitute a violation under this chapter.   Violations of this chapter relating to practitioners of pharmacy shall be regulated in accordance with the restrictions on the use of business name for pharmacists in Section 73-21-109.   Each day that this chapter is violated shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such.   Any health care practitioner who violates any provision under this chapter is guilty of unprofessional conduct and subject to disciplinary action under the appropriate licensure provisions governing the respective health care practitioner.   Any and all fees and other amounts billed to and paid by the patient may be effectively rescinded and refunded. This includes third parties contracted to collect fees on behalf of the health care practitioner, the health care practitioner's employer, or other entity contracting with the health care practitioner as determined by each respective licensing board.   The imposition of professional sanctions, administrative fees or other disciplinary actions shall be publicly reported by the governmental administrative body of proper jurisdiction at its discretion.   Notwithstanding the imposition of any penalty, a professional licensing board or other administrative agency with jurisdiction may seek an injunction or other legal means as appropriate against a person or entity violating this chapter as determined by each respective licensing board.   A licensing board may only enforce violations of this chapter with licensees that are subject to its jurisdiction.
MS Code § 41-121-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services|§ 41-121-11. Repeal of this chapter

 Sections 41-121-1 through 41-121-9 shall stand repealed on July 1, 2020.
MS Code § 41-123-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-1. Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce established; purpose, staffing, duties

 There is established the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce within the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) for the purpose of overseeing the physician workforce development and needs, both in numbers and distribution, of the State of Mississippi. The office shall have a director who must be a physician licensed in the State of Mississippi. In addition, the office shall have a researcher to assist the director in collecting and analyzing data concerning the physician workforce needs of Mississippi and other necessary staff to assist in its work. The office shall have the following duties, at a minimum:   Assessing the current numbers, ages, types of practice, hospital affiliations, and geographic distribution of physicians in each medical specialty in Mississippi;   Assessing the current and future physician workforce needs of the State of Mississippi;   Assisting in the creation and/or support of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited GME training programs in the State of Mississippi based on needs analysis and criteria established by the office and the advisory board while maintaining a strong and continued priority focus on family medicine. This support may include the awarding of state financial assistance as available, for the creation or support of family medicine residencies and other GME programs approved by the advisory board;   Encouraging the development of an adequate and geographically distributed physician workforce in all specialties for the State of Mississippi with an evolving strategic plan; and   Providing an annual report to the Governor, the Legislature, the State Board of Health, and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning on the current status of the physician workforce and training programs in Mississippi.
MS Code § 41-123-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-5. Powers and duties of Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce

 The Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce shall have the following powers and duties, at a minimum:   Developing the administrative policy for the advisory board and the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce;   Developing and implementing strategies and activities for the office and for the implementation of an evolving strategic plan to provide for the physician workforce needs of Mississippi. In developing these strategies, the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce and the advisory board shall seek the input of various organizations and entities including the Mississippi State Medical Association, the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians, the Mississippi Chapters of the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of OB-GYN, the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association, and the Mississippi Osteopathic Medicine Association;   Establishing a budget to support the activities of the office and periodically reviewing and if appropriate, revising, that budget to meet its mission;   Selecting, hiring and supervising the Director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce;   Reviewing the activities of the office and guiding the office in accomplishing the strategic goal of providing Mississippi's physician workforce needs.
MS Code § 41-123-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-7. Policies and procedures for awarding state financial support for creation of family medicine residency programs

  The advisory board shall recommend policies and procedures for the awarding of state funding that creates and/or provides sustaining support for the desired number of ACGME accredited Family Medicine residency programs and other valued and needed ACGME residencies approved by the advisory board that will accept both M.D. and D.O. students.   UMMC with the input of the advisory board shall have the authority to award financial support, from funds specifically appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature, of up to Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) to any hospital or entity with demonstrated commitment and resources, as determined by UMMC with input from the advisory board, to establish and operate an ACGME accredited Family Medicine residency program or other GME program qualifying under subsection (1) of this section. The funds will be dispersed at the determination of UMMC, with input from the advisory board, and may include start-up funding and/or provide sustaining support for residency programs.   Each applicant for state financial support for creation of an ACGME residency program as authorized under this section must submit an application to UMMC through the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce that conforms to requirements established by this chapter and by UMMC with input from the advisory board.   In selecting recipients for state financial support authorized under this section, following criteria and recommendations from the advisory board, UMMC may use its discretion to award funding based on demographic needs and the future success of the residency program.   An applicant for state financial support for creation of an ACGME accredited residency program may receive funding only upon approval of UMMC with input from the advisory board.
MS Code § 41-123-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-9. Adherence by recipient to policies and practices to continue receiving state financial support; authorized uses of financial support

  Hospitals, other entities and/or residency programs must adhere to the policies and practices as stipulated by the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce to continue receiving state financial support under this chapter.   Hospitals, other entities and/or residency programs may receive state financial support that may be provided by the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce pursuant to this chapter. Any financial support awarded by the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce must be used for only the creation of a residency or for residency operational expenses, or the recipient will be liable for repayment of any financial support received under this chapter.
MS Code § 41-123-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-11. Residency programs established with state financial support to accept students from accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools

 Any residency program established with state financial support must at a minimum be capable of accepting students from both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools that are accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) or the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
MS Code § 41-123-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce|§ 41-123-13. Funding for operation of Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce

 Funding for the operation of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce and the Mississippi Physician Workforce Advisory Board, including the salary of the director of the office and all necessary staff, shall be paid from funds specifically appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
MS Code § 41-125-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-1. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of the Legislature to develop, establish, and enforce licensure and basic standards for prescribed pediatric extended care centers in order to assure that the centers provide the necessary family-centered medical, developmental, physiological, nutritional, psychosocial and family training services.
MS Code § 41-125-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-3. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as provided in this section:   "Prescribed pediatric extended care center" or "PPEC center" means any building or buildings, or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide basic nonresidential services to three (3) or more medically dependent or technologically dependent children who are not related to the owner or operator by blood, marriage or adoption and who require such services.Infants and children considered for admission to a PPEC center must have complex medical conditions that require continual care.Prerequisites for admission are a prescription from the child's attending physician and consent of a parent or guardian.   "Licensing agency" means the State Department of Health.   "Basic services" include, but are not limited to, development, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive protocol of care, developed in conjunction with the parent or guardian, which specifies the medical, nursing, psychosocial and developmental therapies required by the medically dependent or technologically dependent child served as well as the caregiver training needs of the child's legal guardian.   "Owner or operator" means a licensee.   "Medical records" means medical records maintained in accordance with accepted professional standards and practices as specified in the rules implementing this chapter.   "Medically dependent or technologically dependent child" means a child who because of a medical condition requires continuous therapeutic interventions or skilled nursing supervision which must be prescribed by a licensed physician and administered by, or under the direct supervision of, a licensed registered nurse.   "Supportive services or contracted services" include, but are not limited to, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, social work, developmental, child life and psychological services.
MS Code § 41-125-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-5. PPEC centers to be licensed; exemptions

  The licensing agency shall license and regulate all PPEC centers in the state that are not exempt under subsection (2) of this section.A license issued by the department is required for the operation of a PPEC center in this state.   A facility, institution or other place operated by the federal government or any agency of the federal government is exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 41-125-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-7. Separate licenses required; fee; exemption

  Separate licenses are required for PPEC centers maintained on separate premises, even though they are operated under the same management. Separate licenses are not required for separate buildings on the same grounds.   An applicant or licensee shall pay a fee for each license application and annual license renewal under this chapter and applicable rules. The amount of the fee shall be Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each licensed bed in the PPEC, with a minimum fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and a maximum fee of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Any increase in the fee charged by the licensing agency under this subsection shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65.   County-operated or municipally operated PPEC centers applying for licensure under this chapter are exempt from the payment of license fees.
MS Code § 41-125-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-9. Application for license; zoning

 In addition to any other information in the application that is required by the licensing agency, the application must contain the location of the facility for which a license is sought and documentation, signed by the appropriate local government official, which states that the applicant has met local zoning requirements.
MS Code § 41-125-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-11. Background screening

 The licensing agency shall require criminal record background screening and fingerprinting for personnel by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
MS Code § 41-125-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-13. Denial, suspension, revocation of licensure; administrative fines; grounds

  The licensing agency may deny, revoke, and suspend a license and impose an administrative fine as provided in Section 41-125-15 for the violation of any provision of this chapter, or applicable rules.   Any of the following actions by a PPEC center or its employee is grounds for action by the licensing agency against a PPEC center or its employee:   An intentional or negligent act materially affecting the health or safety of children in the PPEC center.   A violation of the provisions of this chapter, or applicable rules.   Multiple and repeated violations of this chapter or of minimum standards or rules adopted under this chapter.