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TN Code § 63-6-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-211. Licensure of Out-of-State and International Applicants

  The board is authorized to accept the certificates of licensure from other states as long as the applicant's certificates and qualifications meet or exceed the requirements set forth in § 63-6-207 and the rules promulgated pursuant thereto.   The board is likewise authorized to accept certificates of license from other states or countries and grant licenses to practice medicine in Tennessee to individuals who, at the sole discretion of the board based upon its examination and evaluation of such individuals' credentials, qualifications and reputation within the medical community, qualify as distinguished faculty members at a rank of full professor and upon application and payment of a nonrefundable licensure fee as determined by the board. This type of license shall authorize the practice of medicine in conjunction with a faculty appointment and shall automatically expire at any time the licensee fails to maintain a full-time appointment. The board shall retain the sole discretionary authority to grant or deny annual renewal of such licenses. To be considered for licensure pursuant to this subsection (b), an individual must meet each of the following minimum criteria:  Possess a degree of doctor of medicine or its equivalent;   Have a full-time appointment at professorial rank at an accredited college of medicine in Tennessee;   Have current membership in good standing in medical specialty societies that have restricted and selective membership;   Have been invited to be a lecturer or visiting professor at medical educational institutions either abroad or within the United States;   Have delivered scholarly medical papers before national or international meetings; and   Possess letters of support from the dean of the appointing college of medicine and its appropriate department chairs, as well as from academic colleagues from outside of Tennessee attesting to the individual's distinguished status.     For purposes of enforcing federal immigration laws which relate to the licensure of foreign physicians in this state, the board of medical examiners shall enter into a written agreement, in accordance with federal and other applicable law, between the board and the United States department of homeland security concerning the enforcement of federal immigration laws, which may include participation in the federal systematic alien verification of entitlements program, referred to as the “SAVE program,” and its verification information system, operated by the United States department of homeland security or a successor program designated by the United States department of homeland security or any additional certifying agent within the department or approved by the department.
TN Code § 63-6-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-212. Records

 The board shall keep a record of their proceedings in a book provided for that purpose, which book shall be open for inspection and shall record the name of each applicant, the time of granting a license and the names of the members of the board present. Where a license is denied by the board to any applicant under authority of this chapter, the fact and ground of such denial shall be entered on the minutes of the board and shall be communicated in writing to such applicant.
TN Code § 63-6-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-213. Investigation and Prosecution of Violations — Injunctions — Contested Cases

  The members of the board shall investigate any supposed violation of this chapter and report to the proper district attorney general all the cases that in the judgment of such member or members warrant prosecution.   It is the duty of the district attorneys general to prosecute violators of this chapter.    The board may, through the department of health's general counsel, petition any circuit or chancery court having jurisdiction over any person within this state who is practicing medicine without a license or in violation of a restriction or condition placed upon a license, regardless of whether such practice resulted from a license being restricted, conditioned, denied, or because a license has been suspended or revoked by action of the board, or any other reason, to enjoin such person from conducting or continuing to conduct the unlawful practice of medicine within this state.   Jurisdiction is conferred upon the circuit and chancery courts of this state to hear and determine all such causes as equity causes and are authorized to exercise full and complete jurisdiction in these injunctive proceedings. Nothing in this section shall be construed as conferring criminal jurisdiction upon any court not now possessing such criminal jurisdiction, nor shall any such court, as an incident to the injunctive proceedings authorized in this section, have the power to assess criminal penalties.     The board shall retain rulemaking authority to adjust the administration of its contested case docket in order to provide for the efficient and orderly disposition of contested cases. This authority may include rulemaking for the setting of reasonable limitations on deadlines for case settlements, and whether several contested cases are set on each meeting's docket of business.
TN Code § 63-6-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-215. Advertising

  The board shall adopt rules and regulations to regulate the nature, manner, content and extent of advertising by practitioners who are under the jurisdiction of such board.   If advertising is permitted, all methods must be allowed: newspaper, radio and television.
TN Code § 63-6-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-216. Disciplinary Proceedings Governed by Administrative Procedures Act

 All proceedings for disciplinary action against a licensee under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 63-6-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-217. Practice After License Revocation — Penalty

 After the board has revoked the license of any person for any of the grounds specified in §§ 63-6-214 and 63-6-215, such person shall not thereafter practice medicine or surgery in the state, and for each and every instance of such practice the person commits a Class B misdemeanor.
TN Code § 63-6-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-218. “Good Samaritan law.”

  This section shall be known and cited as the “Good Samaritan Law.”   Any person, including those licensed to practice medicine and surgery and including any person licensed or certified to render service ancillary thereto, or any member of a volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squad that provides emergency public first aid and rescue services, shall not be liable to victims or persons receiving emergency care for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by such person in rendering the emergency care or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the injured person, except such damages as may result from the gross negligence of the person rendering such emergency care, who in good faith:  Renders emergency care at the scene of an accident, medical emergency and/or disaster, while en route from such scene to a medical facility and while assisting medical personnel at the receiving medical facility, including use of an automated external defibrillator, to the victim or victims thereof without making any direct charge for the emergency care; or   Participates or assists in rendering emergency care, including use of an automated external defibrillator, to persons attending or participating in performances, exhibitions, banquets, sporting events, religious or other gatherings open to the general public, with or without an admission charge, whether or not such emergency care is made available as a service, planned in advance by the promoter of the event and/or any other person or association.     A receiving medical facility shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission on the part of any member of a volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squad that provides emergency public first aid and rescue services while such person is assisting medical personnel at the receiving medical facility.   The members of such volunteer fire squad, while providing fire protection within such area outside of a plant, shall be liable to suit under the provisions of the Governmental Tort Liability Act, compiled in title 29, chapter 20, part 2, if:  A volunteer fire squad is organized by a private company for the protection of the plant and grounds of such company;   Such squad is willing to respond and does respond to calls to provide fire protection for residents living within a six (6) mile radius of the county surrounding such plant; and   The plant is located in a county that does not otherwise provide fire protection to such residents.
TN Code § 63-6-219 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-219. Surgical Assistants

  No person shall use or assume the title “registered surgical assistant” unless such person is registered with the board as a registered surgical assistant.   The board shall register as a registered surgical assistant any applicant who presents satisfactory evidence that the applicant:  Holds and maintains a current credential as a surgical assistant or surgical first assistant issued by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting, the National Surgical Assistant Association, or the National Commission for Certification of Surgical Assistants or their successors;   Has successfully completed a surgical assistant training program during the applicant's service as a member of any branch of the armed forces of the United States; or   Has practiced as a surgical assistant at any time in the six (6) months prior to July 1, 2017, provided the applicant registers with the board by December 31, 2019.     The board shall have the authority to deny, restrict, condition, revoke, or otherwise discipline the registration of a surgical assistant for violation of this section, violation of any rules promulgated pursuant to this section, or any basis provided in § 63-6-214.
TN Code § 63-6-220 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-220. Treatment of Juvenile Drug Abusers Without Parental Consent

  Physicians may treat juvenile drug abusers without prior parental consent.   A physician may use the physician's own discretion in determining whether to notify the juvenile's parents of such treatment.
TN Code § 63-6-222 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-222. Emergency Treatment of Minors

  Any licensed physician may perform emergency medical or surgical treatment on a minor, despite the absence of parental consent or court order, where such physician has a good faith belief that delay in rendering emergency care would, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, result in a serious threat to the life of the minor or a serious worsening of such minor's medical condition and that such emergency treatment is necessary to save the minor's life or prevent further deterioration of the minor's condition.   Such treatment shall be commenced only after a reasonable effort is made to notify the minor's parents or guardian, if known or readily ascertainable.   Any physician rendering emergency care to a minor pursuant to this section shall not be liable for civil damages, except such damages as may result from the negligence of the physician in rendering such care.
TN Code § 63-6-223 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-223. Prenatal and Peripartum Care for Minors

  Any person licensed to practice medicine, including those persons rendering service pursuant to § 63-6-204, may, for the purpose of providing prenatal care, examine, diagnose and treat a minor without the knowledge or consent of the parents or legal guardian of the minor and shall incur no civil or criminal liability in connection therewith except for negligence.   Any person licensed to practice medicine, including those persons rendering service pursuant to § 63-6-204, may, for the purpose of providing peripartum care, which may include providing peripartum analgesia, examine, diagnose, and treat a minor who is at least fourteen (14) years of age without the knowledge or consent of the parents or legal guardian of the minor and shall incur no civil or criminal liability in connection therewith except for negligence.
TN Code § 63-6-225 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-225. Unlawful Division of Fees by Physicians

  It is an offense for any licensed physician or surgeon to divide or to agree to divide any fee or compensation of any sort received or charged in the practice of medicine or surgery with any person without the knowledge and consent of the person paying the fee or compensation or against whom the fee may be charged.   This section does not prohibit a physician from compensating any independent contractor that provides goods or services to the physician on the basis of a percentage of the physician's fees generated in the practice of medicine. The percentage paid must be reasonably related to the value of the goods or services provided. Payments by physicians in return for referrals are prohibited.   A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
TN Code § 63-6-226 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-226. Additional Penalty — Suit for Recovery

  Any person who violates § 63-6-225 shall also forfeit and pay treble the value of the fee or compensation to the person applying the same or against whom the fee may be charged, or from whom it may have been demanded, and if the party entitled to sue does not sue within two (2) years after the fee or compensation has been paid or demanded, then the state shall have the right to sue for and recover such treble amount, which shall, upon recovery, be paid one-half (½) into the state treasury and one-half (½) to the officer prosecuting the suit.   It is the duty of the attorney general and reporter, or of the district attorney general of any county in which service of process may be had upon the person liable, to institute in the name of the state all suits necessary for the recovery of the sum of money.
TN Code § 63-6-227 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-227. Cancellation of License Upon Conviction

 The license of any physician or surgeon who is convicted of a violation of § 63-6-225 may, upon the first conviction, and shall, upon any subsequent conviction, be adjudged to be cancelled and annulled by the court before which the conviction may be and, without further trial or hearing, the physician or surgeon shall not thereafter again be admitted to practice medicine or surgery within this state.
TN Code § 63-6-229 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-229. Consent to Medical Treatment by a Minor

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the absence or unavailability of a spouse, any minor is authorized and empowered to consent for such minor's child, either orally or otherwise, to any surgical or medical treatment or procedures not prohibited by law that may be suggested, recommended, prescribed or directed by a duly licensed physician.
TN Code § 63-6-230 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-230. Inactive Licenses to Perform Pro Bono Services

 The board of medical examiners shall establish by rule an inactive license category that allows physicians to perform services without compensation only for those persons receiving services from organizations that have received a determination of exemption under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)). Such inactive license category shall not authorize any other practice of medicine.
TN Code § 63-6-231 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-231. Transfer of Patient Medical Information Outside the State

  The transfer of patient medical information to a person in another state who is not licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the state of Tennessee, using any electronic, telephonic or fiber optic means or by any other method, constitutes the practice of medicine or osteopathy if such information is employed to diagnose and/or treat, any person physically located within the state of Tennessee.   Notwithstanding subsection (a) to the contrary, the transfer of such information shall not constitute the practice of medicine if:  Such information is to be used by a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy licensed in Tennessee;   Such information is to be used for a second opinion requested by a Tennessee licensed medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy; provided, no charges are assessed for such second opinion;   Such information is to be used by an out-of-state physician for treatment of a person who is seeking medical treatment out of Tennessee;   Such information is used to determine if such patient is covered by insurance;   Such information is to be used by physicians in another state to provide occasional academic consultations to a medical school located in Tennessee; or   Such information is used by insurance or related companies for risk evaluation, utilization review, claims processing and/or evaluation of claimant's rehabilitation, including establishing and administering rehabilitation plans. The establishing and administering of such rehabilitation plans shall not include the diagnosis and/or treatment of any person physically located within the state of Tennessee as prohibited by subsection (a).     This section shall not apply to research hospitals, as defined in § 63-6-204(f)(7).
TN Code § 63-6-232 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-232. Disciplinary Complaints Against Chelation Therapist

 All disciplinary complaints filed against a chelation therapist shall be judged by the standard of medical care in the community where such complaint originated.
TN Code § 63-6-233 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-233. Continuing Medical Education

  Any person licensed to practice medicine in this state shall complete continuing medical education as required by the board of medical examiners. The board of medical examiners may establish waivers from such continuing medical education requirements and exemptions for certain licensees through rules and regulations.   The board of medical examiners shall establish the continuing medical educational requirements, waivers and exemptions through rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 63-6-234 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-234. Physicians Serving as United States Public Health Service Commissioned Officers

 A physician serving as a United States public health service commissioned officer who is trained as a national health service corps ready responder shall be authorized to practice medicine at federally qualified health centers while pursuing licensure as provided in this part under the following conditions:   The physician has first filed an application for licensure as provided in this part;   The physician, prior to commencing practice, submits a written statement to the board that all of the physician's medical licenses, including the authority to practice in United States public health service, are unencumbered by disciplinary actions, unresolved disciplinary complaints or unresolved health care liability lawsuits; and   The physician timely complies with all board rules governing the application process and immediately ceases practicing medicine until a license is subsequently granted should the initial licensure application be closed either for failure to provide timely required information or is denied by the board.
TN Code § 63-6-235 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery|Part 2 - General Provisions|§ 63-6-235. Special Volunteer License for Practice in Free Health Clinic — Exemption From Fees — Renewal

  A physician licensed pursuant to this chapter under a special volunteer license who is a medical practitioner, as defined by § 63-1-201, engaged in practice at a free health clinic shall not be subject to license fees under this chapter. The board of medical examiners may issue a special volunteer license, as such license is defined in § 63-1-201, to qualified applicants without fee or charge. Such license shall be for a period of two (2) years and may be renewed on a biennial basis.   Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, a retired or inactive physician may apply for and receive a special volunteer license for practice only in volunteer service at benevolent or humanitarian service project locations outside of the state. The board of medical examiners is authorized to promulgate rules in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to implement this section.