La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XXXIII-1207
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
Section XXXIII-1207 - Self-ReportingA. Any dental health care provider who in the course of practice may at any time undertake to perform or participate in an exposure-prone procedure and who is or becomes HBV seropositive, HCV seropositive, or HIV seropositive shall be required to give notice of such seropositivity to the board in accordance with the provisions of this Section.B. Within 90 days of the effective date of this Chapter, any dental health care provider who has previously been verified as being HBV seropositive, HCV seropositive, or HIV seropositive shall give notice of such diagnosis to the board on a reporting form supplied by the board.C. Within 10 days from the date on which a dental health care provider has been verified as being HBV seropositive, HCV seropositive, or HIV seropositive, the dental health care provider shall give notice of such diagnosis to the board on a reporting form supplied by the board which shall be mailed to the executive director of the board, marked "Personal and Confidential" by registered or certified mail.D. An applicant for licensure as a dental health care provider who at the time of application is verified as being HBV seropositive, HCV seropositive, or HIV seropositive shall acknowledge such diagnosis in his or her written application to the board.E. Aforementioned reporting forms will be provided to each licensee with his or her license and additionally with his or her biennial license renewal application, or upon request.F. The seropositive dental health care provider must submit to evaluation within 15 working days of his notification by the board ordering said dental health care provider to be examined by experts selected by the board, and those experts must complete and submit their reports to the executive director of the board with 15 days following their examination.G. Reports from two physicians and two laboratories evidencing change in the dental health care provider's serostatus shall be submitted to the executive director for the board evaluation of the change of serostatus when any dental health care provider previously verified as HBV seropositive or HCV seropositive who becomes HBV seronegative or HCV seronegative.H. Any dental health care provider or applicant for licensure who is required under this Section to report his/her HBV, HCV, or HIV seropositive status and fails or neglects to provide notice as set forth in this Section shall be deemed in violation of R.S. 37:776(A)(1), (3), (7), (12), (16), (17), (20) and (24), and subject to sanctions associated therewith.La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XXXIII-1207
Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Dentistry, LR 18:743 (July 1992), amended LR 21:573 (June 1995), LR 28:1779 (August 2002).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:760(8) and R.S. 37:1747.