PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Physicians, Physician's Assistants, and Respiratory Care: Enact Patient Right to Know Act; Provide for Creation, Contents, and Dissemination of Physician Profiles; Provide for Right to File Grievance Against Medical Provider; Require Board to Investigate Every Grievance Filed; Establish Right of Patient to Inquire About Cost of Treatment Prior to Receiving Such Treatment

Authors

Josh MarksFollow

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act changes confidentiality provisions concerning investigations of and disciplinary actions against doctors. By adding a new chapter to the Georgia Code, the Act enacts the Patients Right to Know Act, which creates a physician profiling system. The profiles contain background information about doctors including education, number of years in practice, any felony convictions, malpractice judgments, and revocation of hospital privileges. The Act also allows patients to find out the cost of medical treatments. Finally, the Act provides that patients can file grievances against doctors for treatment received.

Recommended Citation

Josh Marks, PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Physicians, Physician's Assistants, and Respiratory Care: Enact Patient Right to Know Act; Provide for Creation, Contents, and Dissemination of Physician Profiles; Provide for Right to File Grievance Against Medical Provider; Require Board to Investigate Every Grievance Filed; Establish Right of Patient to Inquire About Cost of Treatment Prior to Receiving Such Treatment, 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2001).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol18/iss1/18