Chapter 456 - HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 456.001 - Definitions
Section 456.002 - Applicability
Section 456.003 - Legislative intent; requirements
Section 456.004 - Department; powers and duties
Section 456.005 - Long-range policy planning
Section 456.006 - Contacting boards through department
Section 456.007 - Board members
Section 456.008 - Accountability and liability of board members
Section 456.009 - Legal and investigative services
Section 456.011 - Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses
Section 456.012 - Board rules; final agency action; challenges
Section 456.013 - Department; general licensing provisions
Section 456.0135 - [Effective Until 7/1/2025] General background screening provisions
Section 456.0135 - [Effective 7/1/2025] General background screening provisions
Section 456.014 - Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
Section 456.0145 - Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement (MOBILE) Act
Section 456.015 - Limited licenses
Section 456.016 - Use of professional testing services
Section 456.017 - Examinations
Section 456.018 - Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
Section 456.019 - Restriction on requirement of citizenship
Section 456.021 - Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
Section 456.022 - Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
Section 456.023 - Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted
Section 456.024 - Members of Armed Forces and veterans; spouses; licensure
Section 456.0241 - Temporary certificate for active duty military health care practitioners
Section 456.0242 - Office of Veteran Licensure Services
Section 456.025 - Fees; receipts; disposition
Section 456.026 - Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations
Section 456.027 - Education; accreditation
Section 456.028 - Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements
Section 456.029 - Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements
Section 456.0301 - Requirement for instruction on controlled substance prescribing
Section 456.031 - Requirement for instruction on domestic violence
Section 456.032 - Hepatitis B or HIV carriers
Section 456.033 - Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS
Section 456.0341 - Requirements for instruction on human trafficking
Section 456.035 - Address of record
Section 456.036 - Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency
Section 456.0361 - Compliance with continuing education requirements
Section 456.037 - Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability
Section 456.038 - Renewal and cancellation notices
Section 456.039 - Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure
Section 456.0391 - Advanced practice registered nurses; information required for licensure
Section 456.0392 - Prescription labeling
Section 456.041 - Practitioner profile; creation
Section 456.042 - Practitioner profiles; update
Section 456.043 - Practitioner profiles; data storage
Section 456.044 - Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops
Section 456.045 - Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information
Section 456.046 - Practitioner profiles; confidentiality
Section 456.048 - Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners
Section 456.049 - Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions
Section 456.0495 - Reporting adverse incidents occurring in planned out-of-hospital births
Section 456.0496 - Provision of information on eye and vision disorders to parents during planned out-of-hospital births
Section 456.051 - Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health's responsibility to provide
Section 456.052 - Disclosure of financial interest by production
Section 456.053 - Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services
Section 456.054 - Kickbacks prohibited
Section 456.055 - Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation
Section 456.056 - Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians
Section 456.057 - Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information
Section 456.0575 - Duty to notify patients
Section 456.058 - Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice
Section 456.059 - Communications confidential; exceptions
Section 456.061 - Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability
Section 456.062 - Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement
Section 456.063 - Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
Section 456.0635 - Health care fraud; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
Section 456.065 - Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fees; allocation and disposition of moneys collected
Section 456.066 - Prosecution of criminal violations
Section 456.067 - Penalty for giving false information
Section 456.068 - Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints
Section 456.069 - Authority to inspect
Section 456.071 - Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
Section 456.072 - Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
Section 456.073 - Disciplinary proceedings
Section 456.074 - Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license
Section 456.075 - Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives
Section 456.076 - Impaired practitioner programs
Section 456.077 - Authority to issue citations
Section 456.078 - Mediation
Section 456.079 - Disciplinary guidelines
Section 456.081 - Publication of information
Section 456.082 - Disclosure of confidential information
Section 456.36 - Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting
Section 456.38 - Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies
Section 456.41 - Complementary or alternative health care treatments
Section 456.42 - Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs
Section 456.43 - Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs
Section 456.44 - Controlled substance prescribing
Section 456.4501 - Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Section 456.4502 - Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; disciplinary proceedings
Section 456.4503 - Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission; public records and meetings exemptions
Section 456.4504 - Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Rules
Section 456.47 - Use of telehealth to provide services
Section 456.50 - Repeated medical malpractice
Section 456.51 - Consent for pelvic examinations
Section 456.52 - Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures; prohibitions; informed consent
Section 456.61 - Use of free speech by a health care practitioner; prohibition
Section 456.62 - Communication of COVID-19 treatment alternatives