ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2529: nonretaliation policies; health care institutions

Sponsor:  Representative Shah, LD 24

Committee on Health & Human Services

Overview

Specifies that a health care institution or any of its third-party contractors is prohibited from retaliatory actions against a health care provider for making a report.

History

Requires licensed health care institutions to adopt policies that prohibit retaliatory action against a health professional who in good faith: makes a report to the institution; and after providing the institution with reasonable opportunity to address the report, provides information to a private health care accreditation organization or governmental entity concerning the activity, policy or practice. There is a rebuttable presumption that any termination or other adverse action that occurs more than 180 days after the date of the report is not a retaliatory action A.R.S. 36-§ 450.02.

Provisions

1.    Specifies that a health care institution or any of its third-party contractors is prohibited from retaliatory actions against a health care provider for making a report. (Sec. 1)

2.    ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteDefines terms. (Sec. 1)

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