Iowa Code § 135B.7A

Current through March 29, 2024
Section 135B.7A - Procedures - orders

The department shall adopt rules that require hospitals and rural emergency hospitals to establish procedures for authentication of all verbal orders by a practitioner within a period not to exceed thirty days following a patient's discharge.

Iowa Code § 135B.7A

2001 Acts, ch 93, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 93, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 16, §9, 20, 21 2023 amendment applies to a facility or, due to change in ownership, a successor facility that was, on or before December 27, 2020, a general hospital with no more than fifty licensed beds, located in a county in a rural area as specified in section 135B.3A with a specified population, and operating on and prior to a specified date under a valid certificate of need; 2023 Acts, ch 16, §20

Amended by 2023 Iowa, ch 16, s 9, eff. 3/28/2023.
2001 Acts, ch 93, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 93, §1

2023 amendment applies to a facility or, due to change in ownership, a successor facility that was, on or before December 27, 2020, a general hospital with no more than fifty licensed beds, located in a county in a rural area as specified in section 135B.3A with a specified population, and operating on and prior to a specified date under a valid certificate of need; 2023 Acts, ch 16, §20

Section amended