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However, what I quickly learned was that in Tennessee there are laws and regulations that not only make providing good treatment more challenging, but that actually prohibit medical professionals ...
In 2014, some 1.4 million of Tennessee's 6.6 million people received direct services in the 89 rural county health departments or the six metropolitan county health departments. [1] Each year the department, in collaboration with many communities, creates a state health plan [2] to help provide direction for the department.
TennCare was started in the early 1990s under Governor Ned McWherter as a health care reform initiative that had the twin goals of controlling rising Medicaid costs and increasing public access to affordable health care. [2] [3] [4] Tennessee sought and obtained waivers from the federal Health Care Financing Administration that allowed the ...
Senate Bill 1556 (SB 1556), officially called An act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63, relative to conscientious objections to the provision of counseling and therapy, is a 2016 anti-LGBT law in the state of Tennessee that allows licensed counselors in private practice to terminate care or refer away clients because of moral objections to how the client identifies.
Health law is a field of law that encompasses federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the health care industry and its patients, and delivery of health care services, with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional issues. [1] [2]
All private health insurance plans offered in the Marketplace must offer the following essential health benefits: ambulatory care, emergency services, hospitalization (such as surgery), maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse services, prescription drugs, rehabilitative and habilitative services (services to help people ...
Tennessee instituted its abortion ban two months after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in June 2022.
The Tennessee Code Commission is 1 of the 30 or more commissions, boards, and committees that provide assistance to the state court system. The commission consists of five members of which three are ex officio : the Chief Justice of Tennessee , the attorney general and reporter , and the director of legal services for the legislature .