Regulatory Plan FY 2012 (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012)
Executive Order No. 9 requires the Iowa Board of Medicine to annually submit a regulatory plan by August 1 listing each "regulatory action" (each potential rule currently under active consideration or development within the agency excluding those rules that do not have a substantial impact on the legal rights, privileges, or duties of persons) that the agency reasonably expects to issue in proposed or final form in that fiscal year or thereafter.
The Board is charged with safeguarding the public health, safety and welfare by:
- licensing qualified physicians and acupuncturists;
- investigating complaints against physicians and acupuncturists and taking corrective action;
- operating a program for physicians and acupuncturists with an impairment;
- defining the scope of medical and acupuncture practice;
- working cooperatively with certain other agencies, e.g., Board of Physician Assistants, Board of Pharmacy; and
- operating within specified limitations, e.g., public meetings law, public records law, waiver and variance law.
The Board's priorities for rule writing for FY 2012 are as follows:
- To fulfill any requirements imposed by the legislative session,
- To complete changes resulting from administrative and judicial decisions,
- To address public health issues.
- To update or rescind rules that are outdated.
Potential rules in FY 2012 include:
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