SB-0901, As Passed Senate, June 12, 2018

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 901

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

"Public health code,"

by amending section 18001 (MCL 333.18001), as amended by 2016 PA

379.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 18001. (1) As used in this part:

     (a) "Medical care services" means those services within the

scope of practice of podiatrists licensed by the board, except

those services that the board prohibits or otherwise restricts

within a practice agreement or determines shall not be delegated by

a podiatrist without endangering the health and safety of patients

as provided for in section 18048.

     (b) "Participating podiatrist" means a podiatrist or a

podiatrist designated by a group of podiatrists under section 18049

to represent that group.

     (c) "Podiatrist" means a physician and surgeon licensed under

this article to engage in the practice of podiatric medicine and

surgery.

     (d) "Practice agreement" means an agreement described in

section 18047.

     (e) "Practice as a physician's assistant" means the practice

of podiatric medicine and surgery with a participating podiatrist

under a practice agreement.

     (f) "Practice Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (g),

"practice of podiatric medicine and surgery" means the examination,

any of the following:

     (i) The evaluation, diagnosis, management, and treatment

prevention of abnormal nails, superficial excrescenses occurring on

the human hands and feet, including corns, warts, callosities, and

bunions, and arch troubles or the treatment medically, surgically,

mechanically, or by physiotherapy of ailments of human feet or

ankles as they affect the condition of the feet. It does not

include amputation of human feet, or the use or administration of

anesthetics other than local.conditions of the lower extremities,

including local manifestations of systemic disease in the human

foot and ankle, by attending to and advising patients and through

the use of devices, diagnostic tests, drugs and biologicals,

surgical procedures, or other means. The evaluation, diagnosis,

management, and prevention of conditions of the lower extremities

may include osseous and soft tissue procedures that address the

pathology of the foot, ankle, and the contiguous attachments below

the tibial tuberosity.

     (ii) The treatment of ulcerations below the tibial tuberosity

and of human nail diseases, callosities, and verruca.

     (g) "Practice of podiatric medicine and surgery" does not

include amputations proximal to the tibiotalar joint, proximal

osseous procedures that do not involve the tibiotalar joint, or the

administration of intravenous sedation or general anesthesia.

(h) (g) "Task force" means the joint task force created in

section 17025.

     (2) In addition to the definitions in this part, article 1

contains general definitions and principles of construction

applicable to all articles in this code and part 161 contains

definitions applicable to this part.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.