Integrative Health Bills in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health will consider several bills with direct bearing on patient access to integrative providers and services in a hearing on Nov. 17.
Registration in naturopathy
HOUSE
Number: MA HB 1992
Sponsor: Rep. Jay Kaufman (DEM-MA)
Title: An Act establishing a board of registration in naturopathy
Status: Hearing Scheduled JPH – 11/17/2015 10:00 am Gardner Auditorium
Summary: Establishes a board of registration in naturopathy and defines the practice of naturopathic health care.
SENATE
Number: MA SB 1205
Sponsor: Sen. Marc Pacheco (DEM-MA)
Title: An Act establishing a board of registration in naturopathy
Status: Hearing Scheduled JPH – 11/17/2015 10:00 am Gardner Auditorium
Integrative Pain Management
Number: MA HB 2006
Sponsor: Rep. John Lawn (DEM-MA)
Title: An Act relative to the safe treatment of pain
Status: Hearing Scheduled JPH – 11/17/2015 2:00 pm Gardner Auditorium
Summary: The use of needles on trigger points, Ashi points, soft indurations, motor points and/or for intramuscular needling for the treatment of myofascial pain will be considered the practice of acupuncture.
Complementary and alternative health practitioner oversight
Number: MA HB 2033
Sponsor: Rep. William Pignatelli (DEM-MA)
Title: An Act providing for consumer access to and disclosure of complementary and alternative health services
Status: Hearing Scheduled JPH – 11/17/2015 2:00 pm Gardner Auditorium
Summary: Clarifies the circumstances under which a complementary and alternative health practitioner who is not licensed, registered or certified as a health care provider under the Commonwealth shall be in violation of Chapter 93A or any other health care practice act.
Team-based health care
Number: MA SB 1170
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas Kennedy (DEM-MA)
Title: An Act to promote team based health care
Status: Hearing Scheduled JPH – 11/17/2015 2:00 pm Gardner Auditorium
(Thanks to our colleagues at the State Pain Policy Advocacy Network, SPPAN, for the heads up on this event.)
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