§ 25-22.5-16-1 — Purpose; jurisdiction to impose adverse action

Indiana § 25-22.5-16-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 25: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
• Art. 22.5: PHYSICIANS
• Ch. 16: Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

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(a) In order to strengthen access to health
care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care,
the member states of the interstate medical licensure compact have
allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that
complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state
medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows
physicians to become licensed in multiple states, thereby enhancing the
portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients. The
compact creates another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise
change a state's existing medical practice act. The compact also adopts
the prevailing standard for licensure and affirms that the practice of
medicine occurs where the patient is located at the time of the
physician-patient encounter, and therefore requires the physician to be
under the jurisdiction of the state medical board where the patient is
located.
(b) State medical boards that participate in the compact retain the
jurisdiction to impose an adverse action against a license to practice
medicine in that state issued to a physician through the procedures in
the compact.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.60-2022, SEC.2.