Texas Occupations Code

§ 160.004 — REPORT REGARDING CERTAIN IMPAIRED PHYSICIANS

OC § 160.004Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part B. PHYSICIANS · Ch. 160. REPORT AND CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS · Art. A. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO MEDICAL PEER REVIEW

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(a)This section applies to:

(1)a committee of a professional medical society or association operating under written bylaws approved by the policymaking body or governing board of the society or association and composed primarily of physicians;

(2)the staff of that committee; or

(3)a district or local intervenor participating in a program established to aid physicians whose ability to practice medicine is impaired, or reasonably believed to be impaired, by drug or alcohol abuse or mental or physical illness.

(b)A person or committee subject to this section:

(1)may report to the board or to a health care entity in which an affected physician has clinical privileges the name of the impaired physician together with pertinent information relating to that impairment; and

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Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.