The bill creates the Know Your Health-Care Practitioner Act
(act), requiring a health-care practitioner (practitioner) practicing in a health-care profession or occupation specified in the Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act of 2010 to:
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In advertising health-care services using the practitioner's name, identify the type of state-issued license, certificate, or registration held by the practitioner and ensure that the advertisement is free from deceptive or misleading information;
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Affirmatively display the practitioner's specific state-issued license, certificate, or registration, without the use of abbreviations, on an identification name tag; and
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When establishing a practitioner-patient relationship, and as necessary to facilitate patient understanding, verbally communicate to the patient the practitioner's specific state-issued license, certificate, or registration.
A practitioner practicing at a facility that follows the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards and who is in compliance with a facility policy that requires wearing visible identification containing the practitioner's license, certificate, or registration satisfies the requirement to use an identification name tag.
The act allows a practitioner to conceal or omit the practitioner's
name in certain circumstances relating to the practitioner's safety.
The act does not apply to a practitioner who works in a
non-patient-care setting or who does not have any direct patient care interactions or when clinically not feasible.
A violation of the act does not create a private right of action.
