Budget Amendment ID: FY2014-S3-572

EHS 572

Disclosure, Apology and Early Offer Amendment

Messrs. Welch, Kennedy and Eldridge and Ms. Clark moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after section XX, the following new section:-

Section XXXX.  Section 5 of chapter 112 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “years” in line 78 the following:

“; provided, however, that payments made as part of a disclosure, apology and early offer program, shall not be construed to be reportable to or by the board against the physician, absent a determination of substandard care rendered on the part of said physician”