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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="1-604" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="General Clarification of the Disciplinary Process">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If a statute authorizes a health occupations board to use a system of peer review in standard of care cases and the peer reviewer or peer reviewers determine that there has been a violation of a standard of care, the board shall provide the licensee or certificate holder under investigation:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An opportunity to review the final peer review report; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At least 10 business days after the report was sent to the licensee or certificate holder to provide the board with a written response.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a health occupations board receives a written response to a final peer review report, the board shall consider both the report and response before taking any action.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, health occupations boards and disciplinary panels may not reprimand a licensee or certificate holder, place a licensee or certificate holder on probation, or suspend or revoke the license of a licensee or the certificate of a certificate holder solely on the basis of the licensee’s or certificate holder’s use of a diagnostic evaluation or treatment of a patient that is integrative, complementary, alternative, or nonconventional, including in the treatment of Lyme disease or tick–borne illnesses.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection may not be construed to release a licensee or certificate holder from the duty to exercise a professional standard of care when evaluating and treating a patient’s medical condition.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
