Code of Virginia - Title 54.1 Professions And Occupations - Chapter 24 General Provisions

54.1-2400 General powers and duties of health regulatory boards
The general powers and duties of health regulatory boards shall be: 1. To establish the qualifications for registration, certification, licensure or the issuance of a ...
54.1-2400.01 Certain definition
As used in this subtitle, "laser surgery" means treatment through revision, destruction, incision or other structural alteration of human tissue using laser technology. Under this ...
54.1-2400.02 Information concerning health professionals; posting of addresses on the Internet
In order to protect the privacy and security of health professionals, the posting of addresses to the on-line licensure lookup or any successor in interest ...
54.1-2400.1 Mental health service providers; duty to protect third parties; immunity
A. As used in this section: "Certified substance abuse counselor" means a person certified to provide substance abuse counseling in a state-approved public or private ...
54.1-2400.2 Confidentiality of information obtained during an investigation or disciplinary proceeding; penalt...
A. Any reports, information or records received and maintained by any health regulatory board in connection with possible disciplinary proceedings, including any material received or ...
54.1-2400.3 Disciplinary actions to be reported
In addition to the information required by § 54.1-114, the Director shall include in the Department's biennial report for each of the health regulatory boards ...
54.1-2400.4 Mental health service providers duty to inform; immunity; civil penalty
A. Any mental health service provider, as defined in § 54.1-2400.1, shall, upon learning of evidence that indicates a reasonable probability that another mental health ...
54.1-2400.5 Suspension of license, certificate, registration or other authorization issued by a health regulato...
A. An obligee may notify an obligor who is alleged to be in default or delinquent in the payment of a federal- or state-guaranteed educational ...
54.1-2400.6 Hospitals and other health care institutions required to report disciplinary actions against and ce...
A. The chief executive officer and the chief of staff of every hospital or other health care institution in the Commonwealth shall report within 30 ...
54.1-2400.7 Practitioners treating other practitioners for certain disorders to make reports; immunity from lia...
A. Every practitioner in the Commonwealth who is registered, certified, or licensed by a health regulatory board or who holds a multistate licensure privilege to ...
54.1-2400.8 Immunity for reporting
In addition to the immunity for reporting as provided by §§ 54.1-2400.6 and 54.1-2400.7, any person (i) making a report regarding the conduct or competency ...
54.1-2401 Monetary penalty
Any person licensed, registered or certified or issued a multistate licensure privilege by any health regulatory board who violates any provision of statute or regulation ...
54.1-2402 Citizen members on health regulatory boards
Citizen members appointed to boards within the Department of Health Professions after July 1, 1986, shall participate in all matters. Of the citizen members first ...
54.1-2402.1 Appointments, removals, and limitation of terms of members of regulatory boards
Except as otherwise expressly provided, members shall be appointed by the Governor and may be removed by him as provided in subsection B of § ...
54.1-2403 Certain advertising prohibited
No person licensed by one of the boards within the Department shall use any form of advertising that contains any false, fraudulent, misleading or deceptive ...
54.1-2403.01 Routine component of prenatal care
A. As a routine component of prenatal care, every practitioner licensed pursuant to this subtitle who renders prenatal care, including any holder of a multistate ...
54.1-2403.1 Protocol for certain medical history screening required
A. As a routine component of every pregnant woman's prenatal care, every practitioner licensed pursuant to this subtitle who renders prenatal care, including any holder ...
54.1-2403.2 Record storage
A. Medical records, as defined in § 42.1-77, may be stored by computerized or other electronic process or microfilm, or other photographic, mechanical, or chemical ...
54.1-2403.3 Medical records; ownership; provision of copies
Medical records maintained by any health care provider as defined in § 32.1-127.1:03 shall be the property of such health care provider or, in the ...
54.1-2404 Itemized statements required upon request
Upon the request of any of his patients, any health care provider licensed or certified by any of the boards within the Department, except in ...
54.1-2405 Transfer of patient records in conjunction with closure, sale, or relocation of practice; notice re...
A. No person licensed, registered, or certified by one of the health regulatory boards under the Department shall transfer records pertaining to a current patient ...
54.1-2406 Treatment records of practitioners
No records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any practitioner of any profession regulated by any of the regulatory boards within the Department ...
54.1-2407 Requirements for human research
Any person licensed, registered, or certified by any health regulatory board who engages in the conduct of human research, as defined in § 32.1-162.16, shall ...
54.1-2408 Disqualification for license, certificate or registration
A board within the Department of Health Professions shall refuse to admit a candidate to any examination and shall refuse to issue a license, certificate ...
54.1-2408.1 Summary action against licenses, certificates, registrations, or multistate licensure privilege; al...
A. Any health regulatory board may suspend the license, certificate, registration or multistate licensure privilege of any person holding a license, certificate, registration, or licensure ...
54.1-2408.2 Three-year minimum period for reinstatement after revocation
When the certificate, registration or license of any person certified, registered or licensed by one of the health regulatory boards has been revoked, the board ...
54.1-2409 Mandatory suspension or revocation; reinstatement; hearing for reinstatement
A. Upon receipt of documentation by a court or agency, state or federal, that a person licensed, certified, or registered by a board within the ...
54.1-2409.1 Criminal penalties for practicing certain professions and occupations without appropriate licens...
Any person who, without holding a current valid license or multistate licensure privilege, issued by a regulatory board pursuant to this title (i) performs an ...
54.1-2409.2 Board to set criteria for determining need for professional regulation
The Board of Health Professions shall study and prepare a report for submission to the Governor and the General Assembly by October 1, 1997, containing ...
54.1-2409.3 Participation of advisory boards in disciplinary proceedings
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, whenever a disciplinary proceeding involves a respondent who holds a license or certificate authorizing the practice of ...
54.1-2409.4 Authority to receive laboratory results directly.
A. Any health care practitioner licensed under this title who, within the scope of his practice, orders a laboratory test or other examination of the ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009