GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 382

HOUSE BILL 774

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ACT TO ALLOW COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES BETWEEN AND AMONG PHYSICIANS AND MID-LEVEL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 55B-14 reads as rewritten:

"§ 55B-14.  Types of professional services.

(a)       A professional corporation shall render only one specific type professional service, and such services as may be ancillary thereto, and shall not engage in any other business or profession; provided, however, such corporation may own real and personal property necessary or appropriate for rendering the type of professional services it was organized to render and it may invest in real estate, mortgages, stocks, bonds, and any other type of investments; investments. provided further, that

(b)       Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, in the case of architectural, landscape architectural, engineering or land surveying and geological services, as defined in Chapters 83A, 89A, 89C, and 89E respectively, one corporation may be authorized to provide such of these services where such corporation, and at least one corporate officer who is a stockholder thereof, is duly licensed by the licensing board of each such profession; profession. and provided further, that a professional corporation may be formed by a licensed psychologist and a physician practicing psychiatry to render psychotherapeutic and related services.

(c)       A professional corporation may also be formed by and between or among:

(1)       A licensed psychologist and a physician practicing psychiatry to render psychotherapeutic and related services;

(2)       Any combination of a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, certified clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing, certified nurse midwife, and certified nurse anesthetist, to render nursing and related services that the respective stockholders are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved to provide;

(3)       A physician and a physician assistant who is licensed, registered, or otherwise certified under Chapter 90 of the General Statutes to render medical and related services;

(4)       A physician practicing psychiatry, or a licensed psychologist, or both, and a certified clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health  nursing, or a certified clinical social worker, or both, to render psychotherapeutic and related services that the respective stockholders are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved to provide;

(5)       A physician and any combination of a nurse practitioner, certified clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing, or certified nurse midwife, registered or otherwise certified under Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, to render medical and related services that the respective stockholders are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved to provide; and

(6)       A physician practicing anesthesiology and a certified nurse anesthetist to render anesthesia and related medical services that the respective stockholders are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved to provide."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 55B-2(6) reads as rewritten:

"(6)      The term 'professional service' means any type of personal or professional service of the public which requires as a condition precedent to the rendering of such service the obtaining of a license from a licensing board as herein defined, and pursuant to the following provisions of the General Statutes:  Chapter 83, 'Architects'; Chapter 84, 'Attorneys-at-Law'; Chapter 93, 'Public Accountants'; and Article 1, 'Practice of Medicine,' Article 2, 'Dentistry,' Article 6, 'Optometry,' Article 7, 'Osteopathy,' Article 8, 'Chiropractic,' Article 9A, 'Nursing Practice Act,' with regard to registered nurses, Article 11, 'Veterinarians,' Article 12A, 'Podiatrists,' Article 18A, 'Practicing Psychologists,' and Article 18D, 'Occupational Therapy,' of Chapter 90; Chapter 89C, 'Engineering and Land Surveying'; Chapter 89A, 'Landscape Architects'; Chapter 90B, 'Social Worker Certification Act' with regard to Certified Clinical Social Workers as defined by G.S. 90B-3; Chapter 89E, 'Geologists'; and Chapter 89B, 'Foresters.'"

Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1995.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 1995.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives