HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4351        FILED ON: 5/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1148

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the treatment of chronic Lyme disease..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 12CC the following section: -

12DD. A physician may prescribe, administer or dispense antibiotic therapy for therapeutic purposes to a person diagnosed with and having symptoms of Lyme disease of a diagnosis and treatment plan has been documented in the physician’s medical record for that patient and no physician shall be subject to disciplinary action solely for prescribing, administering or dispensing long-term antibiotic therapy fo9r a therapeutic purpose for a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease if a diagnoses and treatment plan has been documented in the physician’s medical record for that patient.