Texas Administrative Code
Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS
Part 9 - TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
Chapter 173 - PHYSICIAN PROFILES
Section 173.1 - Profile Contents
Universal Citation: 22 TX Admin Code ยง 173.1
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) The Texas Medical Board (the "board") shall develop and make available to the public a comprehensive profile of each licensed physician electronically via the Internet or in paper format upon request.
(b) The profile of each licensed physician shall contain the following information listed in paragraphs (1) - (28) of this subsection:
(1) full name as the physician is
licensed;
(2) place of birth if the
physician requests that it be included in the physician's profile;
(3) year of birth;
(4) gender;
(5) ethnic origin if the physician requests
that it be included in the physician's profile;
(6) name of each medical school attended and
the dates of:
(A) graduation; or
(B) Fifth Pathway designation and completion
of the Fifth Pathway Program;
(7) a description of all graduate medical
education in the United States or Canada, including:
(A) beginning and ending dates;
(B) program name;
(C) city and state of program;
(D) type of training (internship, residency
or fellowship); and
(E) specialty
of program;
(8) any
specialty certification held by the physician and issued by a board that is a
member of the American Board of Medical Specialties or the Bureau of
Osteopathic Specialists;
(9)
primary and secondary specialties practiced, as designated by the
physician;
(10) the number of years
the physician has actively practiced medicine in:
(A) the United States or Canada;
and
(B) Texas;
(11) the original date of issuance of the
physician's Texas medical license;
(12) the expiration date of the physician's
registration permit;
(13) the
physician's current registration, disciplinary and licensure
statuses;
(14) the name and city of
each hospital in Texas in which the physician has privileges;
(15) the physician's primary practice
location (street address, city, state and zip code);
(16) the physician's mailing address (street
or P.O. Box address, city, state, and zip code), if the physician does not have
a primary practice location;
(17)
the type of language translating services, including translating services for a
person with impairment of hearing, that the physician provides at the
physician's primary practice location;
(18) whether the physician participates in
the Medicaid program;
(19) whether
the physician's patient service areas are accessible to disabled persons, as
defined by federal law;
(20) a
description of any conviction for an offense constituting a felony, a Class A
or Class B misdemeanor, or a Class C misdemeanor involving moral
turpitude;
(21) a description of
any charges reported to the board to which the physician has pleaded no
contest, for which the physician is the subject of deferred adjudication or
pretrial diversion, or in which sufficient facts of guilt were found and the
matter was continued by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(22) a description of any public board action
against the physician;
(23) a
description of any disciplinary action against the physician by a medical
licensing board of another state;
(24) a description of the final resolution
taken by the board on medical malpractice claims or complaints required to be
opened by the board under the Medical Practice Act (the "Act"), Tex. Occ. Code
Ann. § 164.201 unless the investigation was resolved more than five years
before the date of the update and no action was taken against the physician's
license as a result of the investigation;
(25) a description of any formal complaint
issued by the board's staff against the physician and initiated and filed with
the State Office of Administrative Hearings under § 164.005 of the Act and
the status of the complaint;
(26) a
description of a maximum of five awards, honors, publications or academic
appointments submitted by the physician, each no longer than 120
characters;
(27) a description of
any medical malpractice claim against the physician, not including a
description of any offers by the physician to settle the claim, for which the
physician was found liable, a jury awarded monetary damages to the claimant,
and the award has been determined to be final and not subject to further
appeal; and
(28) whether the
physician provides utilization review services for an insurance company in
connection with health care services rendered by a group health plan and the
name of the insurance company or companies. This does not include providing
utilization review in relation to worker's compensation claims.
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