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MS Code § 41-91-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 91 - Central Cancer Registry|§ 41-91-11. Confidentiality of patients' medical records

  Data obtained under this chapter directly from the medical records of a patient is for the confidential use of the department and the persons or public or private entities that the department determines are necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter. The data is privileged and may not be divulged or made public in a manner that discloses the identity of an individual whose medical records have been used for obtaining data under this chapter.   Information that may identify an individual whose medical records have been used for obtaining data under this chapter is not available for public inspection under the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.   Statistical information collected under this chapter is public information.
MS Code § 41-91-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 91 - Central Cancer Registry|§ 41-91-13. Persons exempt from civil or criminal liability for furnishing information

 The following persons who act in compliance with this chapter are not civilly or criminally liable for furnishing the information required hereunder:   A hospital, clinical laboratory, cancer treatment center or other health-care facility;   An administrator, officer or employee of a hospital, clinical laboratory, cancer treatment center or other health-care facility; and   A physician or employee of a physician.
MS Code § 41-91-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 91 - Central Cancer Registry|§ 41-91-15. Penalties for failure to provide, or for misuse of, information

 Any person or entity who fails to provide the information required to be provided to the cancer registry or who misuses the information provided to the cancer registry shall be subject to a civil penalty of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each such failure or misuse. Such penalty shall be assessed and levied by the board after a hearing, and all such penalties collected shall be deposited into the State General Fund.
MS Code § 41-93-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act|§ 41-93-1. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the "Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act."
MS Code § 41-93-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act|§ 41-93-3. Purposes of chapter

 The purposes of this chapter are:   To create a statewide program to promote public awareness and knowledge about the causes of osteoporosis, personal risk factors, the value of prevention and early detection and the options available for treatment;   To enhance knowledge and understanding of osteoporosis by disseminating educational materials, information about research results, services and strategies for prevention and treatment to patients, health professionals and the public;   To help provide easy access to clear, complete and accurate osteoporosis information and referral services;   To heighten awareness about the prevention, detection and treatment of osteoporosis among state and local health and human service officials, health educators and policy makers; and   To promote the development of support groups for osteoporosis patients and their families and caregivers.
MS Code § 41-93-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act|§ 41-93-5. Powers of State Department of Health

 The State Department of Health may:   Add sufficient qualified staff to implement the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program established by Section 41-93-7;   Provide appropriate training for staff of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program;   Work to improve the capacity of community-based services available to osteoporosis patients;   Work with governmental offices, community and business leaders, community organizations, health care and human service providers and national osteoporosis organizations to coordinate efforts and maximize state resources in the areas of prevention, education and treatment of osteoporosis;   Identify and, when appropriate, replicate or use successful osteoporosis programs and procure related materials and services from organizations with appropriate expertise and knowledge of osteoporosis.
MS Code § 41-93-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act|§ 41-93-7. Additional powers of State Department of Health

  The State Department of Health may establish, maintain and promote an osteoporosis prevention and treatment education program in order to raise public awareness, educate consumers and educate health professionals and teachers, and for other purposes, as provided in this section.   The department may design and implement strategies for raising public awareness on the causes and nature of osteoporosis, personal risk factors, value of prevention and early detection and options for diagnosing and treating the disease.   The department may develop and work with other agencies in presenting educational programs for physicians and other health professionals in the most up-to-date, accurate scientific and medical information on osteoporosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment, therapeutic decision-making, including guidelines for detecting and treating the disease in special populations, risks and benefits of medications and research advances.   The department may conduct a needs assessment to identify:   Available technical assistance and educational materials and programs nationwide;   The level of public and professional awareness about osteoporosis;   The needs of osteoporosis patients, their families and caregivers;   Needs of health-care providers, including physicians, nurses, managed care organizations and other health-care providers;   The services available to osteoporosis patients;   Existence of osteoporosis treatment programs;   Existence of osteoporosis support groups;   Existence of rehabilitation services; and   Number and location of bone density testing equipment.     Based on the needs assessment conducted under subsection (4) of this section, the department may develop, maintain and make available a list of osteoporosis-related services and osteoporosis health-care providers with specialization in services to prevent, diagnose and treat osteoporosis.
MS Code § 41-93-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act|§ 41-93-9. Department may accept grants, etc.; maximization of federal funds

  The department may accept grants, services and property from the federal government, foundations, organizations, medical schools and other entities as may be available for the purposes of fulfilling the obligations of this program.   The department shall seek any federal waiver or waivers that may be necessary to maximize funds from the federal government to implement this program.
MS Code § 41-99-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 99 - Qualified Health Center Grant Program|§ 41-99-1. Definitions

 For purposes of this chapter:   "Mississippi qualified health center" means a public or nonprofit entity that provides comprehensive primary care services that:   Has a community board of directors, the majority of whom are users of such centers;   Accepts all patients that present themselves despite their ability to pay and uses a sliding-fee-schedule for payments; and   Serves a designated medically underserved area or population, as provided in Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act.   "Uninsured or medically indigent patient" means a patient receiving services from a Mississippi qualified health center who is not eligible for Medicaid, Medicare or any other type of governmental reimbursement for health-care costs or receiving third-party payments via an employer.   "Department" means the State Department of Health.   "Primary care" means the basic entry level of health care provided by health-care practitioners or nonphysician health-care practitioners, which is generally provided in an outpatient setting.   "Medically underserved area or population" means an area designated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as an area with a shortage of professionals, health services or a population group designated by the secretary as having a shortage of those services.   "Service grant" means a grant by the department to a Mississippi qualified health center in accordance with this chapter.   "Program" means the Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program established in this chapter.
MS Code § 41-99-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 99 - Qualified Health Center Grant Program|§ 41-99-3. Establishment of Qualified Health Center Grant Program; purpose; administration by Department of Health

 The Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program is established, under the direction and administration of the State Department of Health, for the purpose of making service grants to Mississippi qualified health centers for their use in providing care to uninsured or medically indigent patients in Mississippi. The Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program shall be established with such state funds as may be appropriated by the Legislature.
MS Code § 41-99-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 99 - Qualified Health Center Grant Program|§ 41-99-7. Creation of fund for disbursements of grants

 There is created a special fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program Fund, from which grants and expenditures authorized in connection with the program shall be disbursed. All monies received by legislative appropriation to carry out the purposes of this chapter shall be deposited into the Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program Fund.
MS Code § 41-107-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-1. Title

 This chapter may be known and cited as the "Mississippi Health Care Rights of Conscience Act."
MS Code § 41-107-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-3. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   "Health-care service" means any phase of patient medical care, treatment or procedure, including, but not limited to, the following: patient referral, counseling, therapy, testing, diagnosis or prognosis, research, instruction, prescribing, dispensing or administering any device, drug, or medication, surgery, or any other care or treatment rendered by health-care providers or health-care institutions.   "Health-care provider" means any individual who may be asked to participate in any way in a health-care service, including, but not limited to: a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, nurses' aide, medical assistant, hospital employee, clinic employee, nursing home employee, pharmacist, pharmacy employee, researcher, medical or nursing school faculty, student or employee, counselor, social worker or any professional, paraprofessional, or any other person who furnishes, or assists in the furnishing of, a health-care procedure.   "Health-care institution" means any public or private organization, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, agency, network, joint venture, or other entity that is involved in providing health-care services, including, but not limited to: hospitals, clinics, medical centers, ambulatory surgical centers, private physician's offices, pharmacies, nursing homes, university medical schools and nursing schools, medical training facilities, or other institutions or locations where health-care procedures are provided to any person.   "Health-care payer" means any entity or employer that contracts for, pays for, or arranges for the payment of, in whole or in part, a health-care service, including, but not limited to, health maintenance organizations, health plans, insurance companies or management services organizations.   "Employer" means any individual or entity that pays for or provides health benefits or health insurance coverage as a benefit to its employees, whether through a third party, a health maintenance organization, a program of self-insurance, or some other means.   "Participate" in a health-care service means to counsel, advise, provide, perform, assist in, refer for, admit for purposes of providing, or participate in providing, any health-care service or any form of such service.   "Pay" or "payment" means pay, contract for, or otherwise arrange for the payment of, in whole or in part.   "Conscience" means the religious, moral or ethical principles held by a health-care provider, the health-care institution or health-care payer. For purposes of this chapter, a health-care institution or health-care payer's conscience shall be determined by reference to its existing or proposed religious, moral or ethical guidelines, mission statement, constitution, bylaws, articles of incorporation, regulations or other relevant documents.
MS Code § 41-107-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-5. Rights of Conscience of Health-Care Providers

  Rights of Conscience. A health-care provider has the right not to participate, and no health-care provider shall be required to participate in a health-care service that violates his or her conscience. However, this subsection does not allow a health-care provider to refuse to participate in a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Immunity from Liability. No health-care provider shall be civilly, criminally, or administratively liable for declining to participate in a health-care service that violates his or her conscience. However, this subsection does not exempt a health-care provider from liability for refusing to participate in a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Discrimination. It shall be unlawful for any person, health-care provider, health-care institution, public or private institution, public official, or any board which certifies competency in medical specialties to discriminate against any health-care provider in any manner based on his or her declining to participate in a health-care service that violates his or her conscience. For purposes of this chapter, discrimination includes, but is not limited to: termination, transfer, refusal of staff privileges, refusal of board certification, adverse administrative action, demotion, loss of career specialty, reassignment to a different shift, reduction of wages or benefits, refusal to award any grant, contract, or other program, refusal to provide residency training opportunities, or any other penalty, disciplinary or retaliatory action.
MS Code § 41-107-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-7. Rights of Conscience of Health-Care Institutions

  Rights of Conscience. A health-care institution has the right not to participate, and no health-care institution shall be required to participate in a health-care service that violates its conscience. However, this subsection does not allow a health-care institution to refuse to participate in a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Immunity from Liability. A health-care institution that declines to provide or participate in a health-care service that violates its conscience shall not be civilly, criminally or administratively liable if the institution provides a consent form to be signed by a patient before admission to the institution stating that it reserves the right to decline to provide or participate in a health-care service that violates its conscience. However, this subsection does not exempt a health-care institution from liability for refusing to participate in a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Discrimination. It shall be unlawful for any person, public or private institution, or public official to discriminate against any health-care institution, or any person, association, corporation, or other entity attempting to establish a new health-care institution or operating an existing health-care institution, in any manner, including, but not limited to, any denial, deprivation or disqualification with respect to licensure, any aid assistance, benefit or privilege, including staff privileges, or any authorization, including authorization to create, expand, improve, acquire, or affiliate or merge with any health-care institution, because such health-care institution, or person, association, or corporation planning, proposing, or operating a health-care institution, declines to participate in a health-care service which violates the health-care institution's conscience.   Denial of Aid or Benefit. It shall be unlawful for any public official, agency, institution, or entity to deny any form of aid, assistance, grants or benefits, or in any other manner to coerce, disqualify or discriminate against any person, association, corporation or other entity attempting to establish a new health-care institution or operating an existing health-care institution because the existing or proposed health-care institution declines to participate in a health-care service contrary to the health-care institution's conscience.
MS Code § 41-107-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-9. Rights of conscience of health-care payers

  Rights of Conscience. A health-care payer has the right to decline to pay, and no health-care payer shall be required to pay for or arrange for the payment of a health-care service that violates its conscience. However, this subsection does not allow a health-care payer to decline to pay or arrange for the payment of a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Immunity from Liability. No health-care payer and no person, association, corporation or other entity that owns, operates, supervises or manages a health-care payer shall be civilly or criminally liable by reason of the health-care payer's declining to pay for or arrange for the payment of a health-care service that violates its conscience. However, this subsection does not exempt from liability a health-care payer, or the owner, operator, supervisor or manager of a health-care payer, for declining to pay or arranging for the payment of a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.   Discrimination. It shall be unlawful for any person, public or private institution, or public official to discriminate against any health-care payer, or any person, association, corporation, or other entity (a) attempting to establish a new health-care payer, or (b) operating an existing health-care payer, in any manner, including, but not limited to, any denial, deprivation, or disqualification with respect to licensure, aid, assistance, benefit, privilege or authorization, including, but not limited to, any authorization to create, expand, improve, acquire, affiliate or merge with any health-care payer, because a health-care payer, or a person, association, corporation or other entity planning, proposing or operating a health-care payer declines to pay for or arrange for the payment of any health-care service that violates its conscience.   Denial of Aid or Benefits. It shall be unlawful for any public official, agency, institution or entity to deny any form of aid, assistance, grants, or benefits or in any other manner coerce, disqualify or discriminate against any health-care payer, or any person, association, corporation or other entity attempting to establish a new health-care payer or operating an existing health-care payer because the existing or proposed health-care payer declines to pay for, or arrange for the payment of, any health-care service that is contrary to its conscience.
MS Code § 41-107-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-11. Civil remedies

  A civil action for damages or injunctive relief, or both, may be brought for the violation of any provision of this chapter. It shall not be a defense to any claim arising out of the violation of this chapter that such violation was necessary to prevent additional burden or expense on any other health-care provider, health-care institution, individual or patient.   Damage Remedies. Any individual, association, corporation, entity or health-care institution injured by any public or private individual, association, agency, entity or corporation by reason of any conduct prohibited by this chapter may commence a civil action. Upon finding a violation of this chapter, the aggrieved party shall be entitled to recover threefold the actual damages, including pain and suffering, sustained by such individual, association, corporation, entity or health-care institution, the costs of the action, and reasonable attorney's fees; but in no case shall recovery be less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for each violation in addition to costs of the action and reasonable attorney's fees. These damage remedies shall be cumulative, and not exclusive of other remedies afforded under any other state or federal law.   Injunctive Remedies. The court in such civil action may award injunctive relief, including, but not limited to, ordering reinstatement of a health-care provider to his or her prior job position.
MS Code § 41-107-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience|§ 41-107-13. Severability

 The provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable, and if any provision, word, phrase or clause of this chapter or the application thereof to any person shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter.