MSMA Legislative Preview 2021

ABSTRACT

2020 Wins Women's Health The legislature has traditionally been supportive of making improvements to breast cancer screening coverage, and that trend continued in 2020. Healthcare providers must now perform either an intentional act or malicious misconduct in order to meet the requirements for a punitive damage award. Along with the texting while driving ban and vaccine issues included earlier in this article, we'll likely see legislation that tackles public health topics like a safe needle exchange program, gender-related treatments for minors, sunscreen in schools, access to a COVID vaccine, vapor product restriction and regulation, tanning bed ban for minors, bleeding control education, women's health, and many more. [...]we'll probably see a familiar bill that would create an alternative pathway to physician licensure for assistant physicians.