SB-0901, As Passed House, October 4, 2018
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 901
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 18001 (MCL 333.18001), as amended by 2016 PA
379.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 18001. (1) As used in this part:
(a) "Medical care services" means those services within the
scope
of practice of podiatrists podiatric
physicians licensed by
the board, except those services that the board prohibits or
otherwise restricts within a practice agreement or determines shall
not
be delegated by a podiatrist podiatric
physician without
endangering the health and safety of patients as provided for in
section 18048.
(b)
"Participating podiatrist" means a podiatrist podiatric
physician
or a podiatrist podiatric physician designated by a group
of
podiatrists podiatric
physicians under section 18049 to
represent that group.
(c)
"Podiatrist" "Podiatric
physician" means a physician
and
surgeon
an individual who is licensed under this article to engage
in the practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery.
(d) "Practice agreement" means an agreement described in
section 18047.
(e) "Practice as a physician's assistant" means the practice
of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery with a participating
podiatrist
podiatric physician under a practice agreement.
(f)
"Practice Except as
otherwise provided in subdivision (g),
"practice
of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery" means the
examination,
any of the following:
(i) The evaluation, diagnosis, management,
and treatment
prevention
of abnormal nails, superficial
excrescenses occurring on
the
human hands and feet, including corns, warts, callosities, and
bunions,
and arch troubles or the treatment medically, surgically,
mechanically,
or by physiotherapy of ailments of human feet or
ankles
as they affect the condition of the feet. It does not
include
amputation of human feet, or the use or administration of
anesthetics
other than local.conditions of
the lower extremities,
including local manifestations of systemic disease in the human
foot and ankle, by attending to and advising patients and through
the use of devices, diagnostic tests, drugs and biologicals,
surgical procedures, or other means. The evaluation, diagnosis,
management, and prevention of conditions of the lower extremities
may include osseous and soft tissue procedures that address the
pathology of the foot, ankle, and the contiguous attachments below
the tibial tuberosity.
(ii) The treatment of ulcerations below the tibial tuberosity
and of human nail diseases, callosities, and verruca.
(g) "Practice of podiatric medicine and podiatric surgery"
does not include amputations proximal to the tibiotalar joint,
proximal osseous procedures that do not involve the tibiotalar
joint, or the administration of intravenous sedation or general
anesthesia.
(h) (g)
"Task force" means the
joint task force created in
section 17025.
(2) In addition to the definitions in this part, article 1
contains general definitions and principles of construction
applicable to all articles in this code and part 161 contains
definitions applicable to this part.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.