HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3448        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2073

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the expansion of medical peer review..

 

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.  Chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of section 204 the following :(f) The provisions of this section shall apply to any committee formed by an individual or group to perform the duties or functions of medical peer review, notwithstanding the fact that the formation of the committee is not required by law or regulation or that the individual or group is not solely affiliated with a public hospital or licensed hospital or nursing home or health maintenance organization.