USA Approve Bill Supporting The Use Of Long-Term Antibiotics For The Treatment Of Lyme Disease

By Administrator on 06/06/2009

The Connecticut House of Representatives has unanimously approved a bill designed to give doctors a freer hand in prescribing for Lyme disease.
Effective July 1st 2009.
Substitute House Bill No. 6200 - Effective July 1, 2009 - Public Act No. 09-128.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF LONG-TERM ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF LYME DISEASE.
SUMMARY: Beginning July 1, 2009, this bill allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient for a therapeutic purpose that eliminates the infection or controls the patient's symptoms if (1) a clinical diagnosis is made that the patient has Lyme disease or has symptoms consistent with such a diagnosis and (2) the physician documents the diagnosis and treatment in the patient's medical record.

Also beginning July 1, 2009, the bill prohibits (1) the Department of Public Health from initiating disciplinary action against a physician and (2) the Connecticut Medical Examining Board from taking disciplinary action solely because the physician prescribed, administered, or dispensed long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease. The physician must document the clinical diagnosis and treatment in the patient's record.



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