HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2750        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3717

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act amending the membership of the health care quality and cost council..

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

Chapter 6A of the General Laws is hereby amended in Section 16K, as amended by section 3 of chapter 305 of the acts of 2008, by striking out in (b)(ii) the sentence:- “At least 1 member of the council shall be a clinician licensed to practice in the commonwealth.”, and inserting in the place thereof the sentence: “There shall be two licensed clinicians on the council who are actively practicing in the commonwealth, either a nurse practitioner responsible for managing cases or a physician.  At least one must work in a community hospital system and one in primary care. These clinicians shall have no ownership in a related health care business.