HB468 Alabama 2015 Session

This bill would authorize physicians to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy for a therapeutic purpose to eliminate infection or to control a patient's symptoms upon making a clinical diagnosis that the patient has Lyme disease, another tick borne disease, or displays certain symptoms

This bill would provide that a physician prescribing long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease or other tick borne disease is not subject to discipline by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners and would require the board to post this information on its public website

Relating to Lyme disease; to authorize physicians to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to eliminate infection or to control a patient's symptoms upon making a clinical diagnosis that the patient has Lyme disease or a tick borne disease; to provide that a physician prescribing long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease or other tick borne disease is not subject to discipline by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners; and to require the board to post certain related information on its public website.