Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLV - Medical Professions › Subpart 3 - Practice › Chapter 72 - Consultation or Collaboration with Medical Psychologists › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section XLV-7203 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used in this
					 Chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings
					 specified.
Active Clinical Relationship
-shall mean
						that the physician has seen the patient professionally
e.g.,
examined, diagnosed and/or treated the patient within the past 12
						months.
Board
- the Louisiana State Board of
						Medical Examiners, as constituted in the Act.
Concurrence or Concur
-a physician's
						agreement to a plan for psychopharmacological management of a patient based on
						prior discussion with an MP.
Consultation and Collaboration with an
						MP
or
Consult and/or Collaborate
- that practice in
						which a physician discusses and, if deemed appropriate, concurs in an MP's plan
						for psychopharmacologic management of a patient for whom the physician is the
						primary or attending physician.
Controlled Substance
- any substance
						defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or regulations
						21 C.F.R.
						1308.11 -.15 or
						R.S.
						40:964, or any substance which may hereafter
						be designated as a controlled substance by amendment or supplementation of such
						regulations or statute.
Discussion
-a communication between a
						physician and a medical psychologist conducted in person, by telephone, in
						writing or by some other appropriate means.
Drug
- shall mean the same as the term
						"drug" as defined in
						R.S.
						40:961(16), including
						controlled substances except narcotics, but shall be limited to only those
						agents related to the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders
						as defined in
						R.S.
						37:2352(5).
Medical Practice Act
or
the
						Act
- R.S. 37:1261-92 as may be amended from time to time.
Medication
- is synonymous with
drug
, as defined herein.
Medical Psychologist
or
MP
-a psychological practitioner who has undergone specialized
						training in clinical psychopharmacology, passed a national proficiency
						examination in psychopharmacology approved by the board and holds a current
						license to practice medical psychology in this state, duly issued by the
						board.
Medical Psychology Practice Act,
or
MP Act
-Acts 2009, No. 251,
						R.S.
						37:1360.51-1360.72.
Narcotics
-natural and synthetic opioid
						analgesics, and their derivatives used to relieve pain.
Physician
- an individual lawfully
						entitled to engage in the practice of medicine in this state as evidenced by a
						current license duly issued by the board.
Primary or Attending Physician
-a
						physician who has an active clinical relationship with a patient and is:
						principally responsible for the health care needs of the patient; or currently
						attending to the health care needs of the patient; or considered by the patient
						to be his or her primary or attending physician.
Psychopharmacologic Management
-the
						treatment and/or management of mental or emotional disorders with
						medication.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						37:1270(A)(1), 1270(B)(6)
						and 37:2371-2378.