Health Occupations - Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment of Patients - Disciplinary Actions (The Patient's Access to Integrative Healthcare Act of 2020)
What this bill does
Prohibiting health occupations boards and disciplinary panels from reprimanding a licensee or certificate holder, placing a licensee or certificate holder on probation, or suspending or revoking a license of a licensee or the certificate of a certificate holder solely on the basis of a licensee's or certificate holder's use of a diagnostic evaluation or treatment that is integrative, complementary, alternative, or nonconventional, including in the treatment of Lyme disease or tick-borne illnesses.
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Testimony (27)
MGA witness list| Position | Witness | Organization | Testimony |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAV | Rollow, William | Integrative Health Practice | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Barnes, Lucy | Lyne Disease Education & Support Groups of Maryland | Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Eckardt, Senator | MGA | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Tyson, Denise | Maryland Acupuncture Society | Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Bloem, Fred | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Catto, Kristina | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | D'Adamo, Chris | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Dickover, Kandace | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Dumoff, Alan | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Evans, Anne | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Gunn, Heather | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Jaffe, Caryn | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | London, David | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Mescher, Elizabeth | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | Vickers, Rebecca | Individual | Position only |
| FAV | Wilcoxon, Shari | Individual | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| FAV | deCastro, Belinda | Individual | Written (PDF) |
| UNF | ye, webster | Board of Dental Examiners | Written (PDF) |
| UNF | ye, webster | Board of Nursing | Written (PDF) |
| UNF | ye, webster | Board of Occupational Therapists | Written (PDF) |
| UNF | Dudzic, Matthew | Board of Physicians | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| UNF | Hawk, Wynee | Board of Physicians | Position only |
| UNF | 0'Connor, Patricia | HEAU | Written (PDF) |
| UNF | Wise, Steve | MedChi | Oral + Written (PDF) |
| UNF | Ye, Webster | State Board of Audiologists | Written (PDF) |
| INFO | ye, webster | Board of Acupuncture | Written (PDF) |
| INFO | kolp, ande | the arc maryland | Written (PDF) |