SB 357

Abstract

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 31, 33, 43, and 45 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, insurance, professions and businesses, and public officers and employees, respectively, so as to provide for a limb salvage protocol and treatment to prevent or delay limb amputation in whole or in part, due to diabetes, peripheral artery disease, or other medical conditions; to require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies to provide for a limb salvage protocol; to require the State Board of Podiatry Examiners to establish a limb salvage protocol and treatment; to mandate the state health benefit plan to cover healthcare services related to a limb salvage protocol or treatment; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.