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Texas Occupations Code - Section 162.202. Committee Established By School

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§ 162.202. COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY SCHOOL.  (a) A 
private medical school subject to this subchapter shall establish a 
committee consisting of at least five actively practicing 
physicians who provide care in the clinical program of the private 
medical school.  The committee shall approve existing policies, or 
adopt new policies if none exist, to ensure that a physician whose 
professional income is retained under Section 162.201 is exercising 
the physician's independent medical judgment in providing care to 
patients in the school's clinical programs.
	(b)  The policies adopted under this section must include 
policies relating to credentialing, quality assurance, utilization 
review, peer review, medical decision-making, governance of the 
committee, and due process.
	(c)  Each member of a committee under this section shall 
provide to the board biennially a signed and verified statement 
indicating that the member:
		(1)  is licensed by the board;                                                
		(2)  will exercise independent medical judgment in all 
committee matters, specifically in matters relating to 
credentialing, quality assurance, utilization review, peer review, 
medical decision-making, and due process;
		(3)  will exercise the member's best efforts to ensure 
compliance with the private medical school's policies that are 
adopted or established by the committee;  and
		(4)  shall report immediately to the board any action 
or event that the member reasonably and in good faith believes 
constitutes a compromise of the independent judgment of a physician 
in caring for a patient in the private medical school's clinical 
program or in carrying out the member's duties as a committee 
member.
	(d)  The board shall adopt rules requiring the disclosure of 
financial conflicts of interest by a committee member.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, § 14.033(a), eff. Sept. 
1, 2001.

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