Year: 2014
Resolution Number: 19
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Robert Lee, MD
Sponsor: Annette Mercatante, MD
On behalf of:
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS continue to work with the AMA to enact regulations to provide immunity from medical malpractice lawsuits to physicians who provide charity care at their offices or clinics to patients referred from free clinics similar to the immunity that would have been granted to those physicians had they performed those services within the scope of their work at the free clinic per the Free Clinic Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Medical Malpractice Program at both the state and federal levels
RESOLVED: That MSMS continue to work with the AMA to enact regulations to provide immunity from medical malpractice lawsuits to physicians who provide charity care at their offices or clinics to patients referred from free clinics similar to the immunity that would have been granted to those physicians had they performed those services within the scope of their work at the free clinic per the Free Clinic Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Medical Malpractice Program at both the state and federal levels
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Liability Related to Referrals from Free Clinics
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