P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 6981c
To ensure that Puerto Rico’s offer in the area of medical tourism is excellent and able to successfully compete with similar offers at the national and international level, a Consultative Board to foster medical tourism is hereby created and attached to the Tourism Company, which shall be its Chair. Said Board shall be charged with the implementation and development of the public policy, parameters, criteria, certifications, licenses, evaluations, reports, and regulation to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Likewise, the Board shall gather information on patients, such as: origin, type of service rendered, cost, time of stay, and number of companions, insofar as the Board complies with the requirements of the HIPPA [sic]. Moreover, the Board shall be responsible for establishing metrics to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of services. The Consultative Board shall arrange for hospitals to grant privileges, insofar as the Licensure Board has issued a provisional license to the physician coming from the United States. The metrics shall include a patient satisfaction survey and it shall be the responsibility of the Board to carry out the pertinent arrangements with hospitals, so that they may grant privileges to physicians from the United States who accompany their patients for medical care and treatment [sic]. The Board shall make recommendations to the Executive Director about priorities, resource appropriation for the development of the industry, and implementation of the powers and duties contained herein. The Board shall be composed of the Secretary of Health, the Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce, and the Executive Director of the Tourism Company. The Board shall be constituted not later than ninety (90) days after this act takes effect and shall hold its first meeting within such term to draft and approve a work plan for implementing the provisions of this chapter. Not later than one hundred and eighty (180) days from having been duly constituted, the Board shall recommend the parameters for the development of the industry; requirements, standards, and criteria required from the activities, facilities, and premises to be certified as pertaining to medical tourism; the proposed regulation; and requirements to grant licenses and authorization to service providers and activity, facility, and premise operators of the industry. Not later than ninety (90) days after such one hundred and eighty (180)-day term has elapsed, the Executive Director shall render a report to the Legislative Assembly on the compliance with the provisions of § 6981b if this title.
History —Dec. 15, 2010, No. 196, § 6.