HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1590        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2059

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the definition of medical peer review committee..

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

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the most recent edition, is hereby amended in the definition of “Medical peer review committee”, after the words “the evaluation or improvement of the quality of health care rendered by providers of health care services”, by inserting the following:-

or a committee of an ambulance service provider, a physician medical director, a medical advisor, or ambulance service supervisory personnel who gather, create, and review information relating to the care and treatment of patients in providing medical care, including employee performance reviews, quality assurance data, and other performance data of an EMS provider as defined in Chapter 111C,