Texas Administrative Code › Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS › Part 9 - TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD › Chapter 173 - PHYSICIAN PROFILES › Section 173.1 - Profile Contents

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) The Texas
				Medical Board (the "board") shall develop and make available to the public a
				comprehensive profile of each licensed physician electronically via the
				Internet or in paper format upon request.
(b) The profile of each licensed physician
				shall contain the following information listed in paragraphs (1) - (28) of this
				subsection:
(1) full name as the physician is
				licensed;
(2) place of birth if the
				physician requests that it be included in the physician's profile;
(3) year of birth;
(4) gender;
(5) ethnic origin if the physician requests
				that it be included in the physician's profile;
(6) name of each medical school attended and
				the dates of:
(A) graduation; or
(B) Fifth Pathway designation and completion
				of the Fifth Pathway Program;
(7) a description of all graduate medical
				education in the United States or Canada, including:
(A) beginning and ending dates;
(B) program name;
(C) city and state of program;
(D) type of training (internship, residency
				or fellowship); and
(E) specialty
				of program;
(8) any
				specialty certification held by the physician and issued by a board that is a
				member of the American Board of Medical Specialties or the Bureau of
				Osteopathic Specialists;
(9)
				primary and secondary specialties practiced, as designated by the
				physician;
(10) the number of years
				the physician has actively practiced medicine in:
(A) the United States or Canada;
				and
(B) Texas;
(11) the original date of issuance of the
				physician's Texas medical license;
(12) the expiration date of the physician's
				registration permit;
(13) the
				physician's current registration, disciplinary and licensure
				statuses;
(14) the name and city of
				each hospital in Texas in which the physician has privileges;
(15) the physician's primary practice
				location (street address, city, state and zip code);
(16) the physician's mailing address (street
				or P.O. Box address, city, state, and zip code), if the physician does not have
				a primary practice location;
(17)
				the type of language translating services, including translating services for a
				person with impairment of hearing, that the physician provides at the
				physician's primary practice location;
(18) whether the physician participates in
				the Medicaid program;
(19) whether
				the physician's patient service areas are accessible to disabled persons, as
				defined by federal law;
(20) a
				description of any conviction for an offense constituting a felony, a Class A
				or Class B misdemeanor, or a Class C misdemeanor involving moral
				turpitude;
(21) a description of
				any charges reported to the board to which the physician has pleaded no
				contest, for which the physician is the subject of deferred adjudication or
				pretrial diversion, or in which sufficient facts of guilt were found and the
				matter was continued by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(22) a description of any public board action
				against the physician;
(23) a
				description of any disciplinary action against the physician by a medical
				licensing board of another state;
(24) a description of the final resolution
				taken by the board on medical malpractice claims or complaints required to be
				opened by the board under the Medical Practice Act (the "Act"), Tex. Occ. Code
				Ann. § 164.201 unless the investigation was resolved more than five years
				before the date of the update and no action was taken against the physician's
				license as a result of the investigation;
(25) a description of any formal complaint
				issued by the board's staff against the physician and initiated and filed with
				the State Office of Administrative Hearings under § 164.005 of the Act and
				the status of the complaint;
(26) a
				description of a maximum of five awards, honors, publications or academic
				appointments submitted by the physician, each no longer than 120
				characters;
(27) a description of
				any medical malpractice claim against the physician, not including a
				description of any offers by the physician to settle the claim, for which the
				physician was found liable, a jury awarded monetary damages to the claimant,
				and the award has been determined to be final and not subject to further
				appeal; and
(28) whether the
				physician provides utilization review services for an insurance company in
				connection with health care services rendered by a group health plan and the
				name of the insurance company or companies. This does not include providing
				utilization review in relation to worker's compensation claims.