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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2296 FILED ON: 1/19/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1177
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Edward F. Coppinger
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Edward F. Coppinger10th Suffolk1/19/2023 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2296 FILED ON: 1/19/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1177
By Representative Coppinger of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1177) of
Edward F. Coppinger relative to defining certain invasive surgical procedures. Health Care
Financing.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1288 OF 2021-2022.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Chapter 112 Sections 66 to 73 of the General Laws, as appearing in the
22018 Official Edition, and as amended by Chapter 260 of the Acts of 2020, is hereby amended
3by inserting at the end of section 66B the following:
4 For the purposes of sections 66 to 73, inclusive and any rules or regulations promulgated
5pursuant thereto, “invasive surgical procedures” shall be defined as any procedures which
6structurally alter the human body by the incision or destruction or cutting of tissues. Invasive
7surgical procedures also include the diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease
8processes by any instruments causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue,
9or surgically implanted artificial prosthetics, which include lasers, ultrasound, ionizing radiation,
10scalpels, probes, and needles. The tissue can be cut, injected, burned, vaporized, frozen, sutured, 2 of 2
11probed, or manipulated by closed reductions for major dislocations or fractures, or otherwise
12altered by mechanical, thermal, light-based, electromagnetic, chemical means, or other means.
13Invasive surgical procedures do not include the use of an epinephrine auto-injector to counteract
14anaphylaxis.
15 SECTION 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict, limit or expand the current
16scope of practice authorized under Chapter 112 and in effect upon passage of this act, of any
17profession licensed under Chapter 112.