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HB 498 Original 2025 Regular Session Phelps
Abstract: Requires a hospital to grant emergency privileges that allow a healthcare professional to
perform a unique procedure on a patient in hospital where he is not generally authorized to
practice medicine.
Proposed law requires a hospital transferring a patient to another hospital to grant emergency
privileges that allow a qualified healthcare professional to administer a unique procedure to a patient
admitted to the transferring hospital.
Proposed law states that a healthcare professional shall qualify for emergency privileges if he is
performing a unique procedure intended to stabilize a patient, and he is credentialed to provide the
same procedure in the hospital receiving the patient.
Proposed law provides that emergency privileges are valid for the duration of the unique procedure.
Proposed law states that the healthcare professional shall provide notice to the transferring hospital
that he intends to perform a unique procedure at the visiting hospital, and the hospital has one hour
from receiving the notice to grant emergency privileges.
Proposed law defines terms.
(Adds R.S. 40:2109.4)