Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 060 - STATE MEDICAL BOARD
Rule 060.00.12-002 - Regulation 2.8 - Creating an Excepiton from the Physician-Patient Relationship
Universal Citation: AR Admin Rules 060.00.12-002
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2024
8. ** Requiring minimum standards for establishing physician/patient relationships. A physician exhibits gross negligence if he provides and/or recommends any form of treatment, including prescribing legend drugs, without first establishing a proper physician/patient relationship.
A. For
purposes of this regulation, a proper physician/patient relationship, at a
minimum requires that:
1. The physician
performs a history and physical examination of the patient adequate to
establish a diagnosis and identify underlying conditions and/or
contraindications to the treatment recommended/provided, OR personally knows
the patient and the patient's general health status through an "ongoing"
personal or professional relationship, AND THAT
2. Appropriate followup be provided, when
necessary at medically necessary intervals.
B. For the purposes of this regulation, a
proper physician/patient relationship is deemed to exist in the following
situations:
1. When treatment is provided in
consultation with, or upon referral by, another physician who has an ongoing
relationship with the patient, and who has agreed to supervise the patient's
treatment, including follow-up care and the use of any prescribed
medications.
2. On-call or
cross-coverage situations.
C. Exceptions - Recognizing a physician's
duty to adhere to the applicable standard of care, the following situations are
hereby excluded from the requirement of this regulation:
1. Emergency situations where the life or
health of the patient is in danger or imminent danger.
2. Simply providing information of a generic
nature not meant to be specific to an individual patient.
3. This Regulation does not apply to
prescriptions written or medications issued for use in expedited heterosexual
partner therapy for the sexually transmitted diseases of gonorrhea and/or
chlamydia.
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