Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The fee otherwise required for annual
renewal of licensure will be reduced by one-half in favor of a physician who
holds an unrestricted license to practice medicine issued by the board and who
has, prior to the first day of the year for which such renewal will be
effective:
1. attained the age of 70
years;
2. voluntarily surrendered
to the issuing authorities his or her state license and federal registration to
prescribe, dispense, or administer controlled substances; and
3. made application to the board for such
reduced licensure renewal fee, upon a form supplied by the board, verifying the
conditions requisite to such reduced fee and consenting to revocation of any
license renewed pursuant to this Section upon a finding by the board that the
licensee, following issuance of licensure renewal pursuant to this Section,
continued to hold, obtained, or sought to obtain state licensure or federal
registration to prescribe, dispense, or administer controlled
substances.
B. The fee
otherwise required for annual renewal of licensure will be reduced by one-half
in favor of a physician who holds an unrestricted license to practice medicine
issued by the board and who has, prior to the first day of the year for which
such renewal will be effective:
1. ceased to
engage in the practice of medicine in any form in this state as a consequence
of physical or mental disability;
2. voluntarily surrendered to the issuing
authorities his or her state license and federal registration to prescribe,
dispense, or administer controlled substances; and
3. made application to the board for such
reduced licensure renewal fee, upon a form supplied by the board, verifying the
conditions requisite to such reduced fee, including independent physician
verification of the applicant's physical or mental disability, and consenting
to revocation of any license renewed pursuant to this Section upon a finding by
the board that the licensee, following issuance of licensure renewal pursuant
to this Section, engaged or sought to engage in any manner in the practice of
medicine in this state or continued to hold, obtained, or sought to obtain
state licensure or federal registration to prescribe, dispense, or administer
controlled substances.
C. A physician whose medical license is
renewed pursuant to this Section shall not thereafter engage or seek to engage
in the active practice of medicine in this state or to prescribe, dispense, or
administer controlled substances or other prescription medications except upon
prior application to and approval by the board, which, in its discretion, as a
condition to reinstatement of full licensure, may require that:
1. the physician take and successfully pass
all or a designated portion of the USMLE, COMLEX-USA, SPEX, or COMVEX-USA
examination; and/or
2. the
physician provide medical documentation satisfactory to the board that the
physician is then physically and mentally capable of practicing medicine with
reasonable skill and safety to patients.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
37:1270, 37:1280 and
37:1281.
