PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1215, 1840 PRINTER'S NO. 1878
No. 998 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY McILHINNEY, O'PAKE, WASHINGTON, RAFFERTY AND
RHOADES, JUNE 25, 2007
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, APRIL 1, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for clinical social work services.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. The definitions of "health service doctor" and
6 "professional health services" in section 6302(a) of Title 40 of
7 the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended and the
8 subsection is amended by adding a definition to read:
9 § 6302. Definitions.
10 (a) General rule.--The following words and phrases when used
11 in this chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates
12 otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
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14 "Clinical social work services." The general and usual
15 services rendered and care administered by A licensed clinical <--
16 social workers as defined as the "practice of clinical social <--
17 work" in the act of July 9, 1987 (P.L.220, No.39), known as the
1 Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional
2 Counselors Act WORKER. <--
3 * * *
4 "Health service doctor." A doctor of dental surgery, doctor
5 of medicine, doctor of optometry, doctor of osteopathy, doctor
6 of podiatry, doctor of chiropractic, licensed physical
7 therapist, licensed clinical social worker, certified registered
8 nurse anesthetist, certified registered nurse practitioner,
9 certified enterostomal therapy nurse, certified community health
10 nurse, certified psychiatric mental health nurse, certified
11 clinical nurse specialist, licensed psychologist, licensed
12 speech-language pathologist, licensed audiologist or licensed
13 teacher of persons who are hearing impaired.
14 * * *
15 "LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER." AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3 <--
16 OF THE ACT OF JULY 9, 1987 (P.L.220, NO.39), KNOWN AS THE SOCIAL
17 WORKERS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL
18 COUNSELORS ACT.
19 * * *
20 "Professional health services." Dental services, medical
21 services, optometric services, osteopathic services, podiatry
22 services, chiropractic services, physical therapy services,
23 clinical social work services, psychological services, speech-
24 language pathology services, audiology services, services of
25 teachers of persons who are hearing impaired, certified
26 registered nurse services provided by a certified registered
27 nurse at any time except when the certified registered nurse is
28 acting as an employee of a health care facility or of an
29 anesthesiology group or any one or more of them, provided any of
30 the above-listed services are medically necessary.
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2 Section 2. Section 6322(f) of Title 40 is amended to read:
3 § 6322. Scope of service.
4 * * *
5 (f) Legislative amendment of stated purposes of existing
6 corporations.--The stated purposes of all existing general
7 medical service corporations are hereby amended so as to include
8 the furnishing of osteopathic, dental, optometric, podiatry,
9 chiropractic, physical therapy, clinical social work,
10 psychological, speech-language pathology and audiology services
11 and the services of teachers of persons who are hearing impaired
12 through doctors of osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, podiatry
13 and chiropractic and through licensed physical therapists,
14 licensed clinical social workers, psychologists, speech-language
15 pathologists, audiologists and teachers of persons who are
16 hearing impaired, respectively.
17 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 180 days.
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