FOR the purpose of prohibiting a health occupations board from disciplining a certain health care practitioner under certain circumstances because of the health care practitioner’s use of a certain diagnostic evaluation or treatment of a patient;
authorizing a health occupations board to discipline a certain health carepractitioner if the board makes a certain determination;
prohibiting a health occupations board from using the use of a certain drug, device, biological product, or method as the basis for disciplining a certain health care practitioner;
prohibiting a health occupations board, under certain circumstances, from finding that a certain health care practitioner violated any record–keeping,
billing, or other regulatory requirements for acts or omissions that arise from professional differences of opinion;
prohibiting certain standards for coordination of care or referral to a medical specialist, or other standards of managing patient care, from being higher for acertain health care practitioner than for any other health care practitioner;
prohibiting an official, employee, or agent of the State from blocking or attempting to block a patient’s access to certain diagnostic or treatment methods under certain circumstances;
requiring, except under certain circumstances, that a certain panel of peer reviewers include at least one reviewer with certain training, competence, and experience in certain methods; requiring that a certain panel of peer reviewers in certain cases include, under certain circumstances, at least one reviewer withcertain training, competence, and experience in integrative medicine;
prohibiting a certain board from disciplining a licensee or certificate holder in a certain standard of care case except under certain circumstances;
defining a certain term;
and generally relating to disciplinary actions for diagnostic evaluation and treatment of patients.