Title 32, Professions and Occupations

A. A health care provider must make available on request or online the direct pay price for at least the twenty-five most commonly provided services, if applicable, for the health care provider. The services may be identified by a common procedural terminology code or by a plain-…

A. A health profession regulatory board in this state may issue a volunteer health services registration to allow a health professional who is not a licensee to practice in this state for a total of up to fourteen days each calendar year if the health professional meets all of th…

A. Beginning January 1, 2015, each member of a health profession regulatory board shall complete a twelve-hour training within one year after the member's initial appointment to the board. Any member of a health profession regulatory board whose initial appointment was before Jan…

A. A medical practitioner regulatory board shall notify each medical practitioner who receives an initial or renewal license and who intends to apply for registration or has an active registration under the controlled substances act (21 United States Code section 801 through 904)…

A health professional is not required to participate in any public or private third-party reimbursement program as a condition of licensure under this title.

A. This state, any political subdivision of this state or any department or agency of this state, including a health profession regulatory board, or a private entity contracted with a health profession regulatory board to carry out functions of the board may not punish a health p…

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title and except as provided in this subsection, a member of a health profession regulatory board is not eligible for reappointment to that board once the person has been appointed for two full terms, in addition to any time served o…

A. Each health profession regulatory board may establish a nondisciplinary confidential program, including enrollment criteria for participation in the program, for the monitoring of a licensee or certificate holder who has been reported to or who voluntarily reports to the licen…

A. A health profession regulatory board may not include any question on an application for a license, permit, certificate or endorsement that requests information about whether the applicant has sought mental health assistance or received a mental health diagnosis or treatment. T…

Notwithstanding any time limit to the contrary in this title, a health profession regulatory board may not act on its own motion or on any complaint received by the board in which an allegation of unprofessional conduct or any other violation of the chapter that applies to a prof…

In addition to any other disciplinary actions that may be taken, a health profession regulatory board may impose a requirement for a reimbursement of fees paid to a licensee or certificate holder by or on behalf of the patient, if requested by the patient on a complaint form pres…

A. A health profession regulatory board shall have, for each licensee under the board's regulation, an address of record designated by the licensee that may be disclosed to the public. If the licensee designates the licensee's residential address as the address of record, the boa…

A. A health profession regulatory board shall regulate the unauthorized practice of the health profession the board regulates. B. A health profession regulatory board or the executive director of the board, if delegated and consistent with each regulatory board's statutory author…

A. Before performing breast implant surgery, a physician who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title must provide the patient with the following, in writing or in an electronic format, based on the information that is then generally available to physicians who perf…

It is an act of unprofessional conduct for a physician who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title, a nurse practitioner who is licensed pursuant to chapter 15 of this title or a physician assistant who is licensed pursuant to chapter 25 of this title to perform or…

A. Any statewide association that is exempt from taxation under 26 United States Code section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) and that primarily represents health professionals who are licensed to practice pursuant to chapter 13, 15 or 17 of this title may establish a health professional …

A. A physician may not provide irreversible gender reassignment surgery to any individual who is under eighteen years of age. B. A physician may provide any of the following to an individual who is under eighteen years of age: 1. Services to an individual born with a medically ve…

Except as provided in section 32-1753, a health professional may engage in the practice for which the health professional is licensed in any form of business entity in this state or as an employee of any form of business entity in this state.

If a health profession regulatory board suspends the processing of renewal applications for licensure or certification: 1. All current licenses and certificates that were previously issued by that health profession regulatory board are extended through the suspension period. 2. D…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administer" means the direct application of or dispensing or furnishing a prescription medication or a prescription-only device, whether by injection or any other means, to the body of a patient by a health professional …

Only a health professional, who has prescribing authority and who is acting within the health professional's scope of practice, may administer or supervise another health professional, who is acting within the health professional's scope of practice, in the administration of pres…

A. A health professional may register, operate and use a laser or IPL device that is registered with the department or administer drugs or devices for cosmetic purposes to the extent the use is allowed by the health professional's scope of practice and the health professional has…

The laser safety fund is established consisting of fees collected by the department pursuant to section 32-3233. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated.

(Conditionally Rpld.) The medical licensure compact is enacted into law as follows: Section 1. Purpose 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 ha…

(Conditionally Rpld.) A subpoena issued pursuant to section 32-3241, section 9 for the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of evidence from this state shall be enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this state according to that court's practice and…

(Conditionally Rpld.) An employer may not require a physician to seek licensure through the medical licensure compact enacted by section 32-3241 as a condition of initial or continued employment as an allopathic or osteopathic physician in this state. An employer may require that…

(Conditionally Rpld.) If a meeting, or a portion of a meeting, of the interstate commission is closed pursuant to section 32-3241, section 11, subsection H, the commission's legal counsel or designee shall certify that the meeting may be closed and shall reference each relevant e…

(Conditionally Rpld.) The Arizona medical board and the Arizona board of osteopathic examiners in medicine and surgery: 1. Within thirty days after an interstate commission action shall post on the board's public website notice of any commission action that may affect a physician…

(Conditionally Rpld.) A. This article is repealed if either of the following occurs: 1. The interstate medical licensure compact commission created pursuant to section 32-3241, section 11 issues a rule or decision that would change the scope of practice of or the definition of un…

A. A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe controlled substances shall limit the initial prescription for a patient for a schedule II controlled substance that is an opioid to not more than a five-day supply, except that an initial prescription for a…

A. A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe controlled substances may not issue a new prescription to be filled or dispensed for a patient outside of a health care institution for a schedule II controlled substance that is an opioid that exceeds ninet…

A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe schedule II controlled substances and who has a valid United States drug enforcement administration registration number or who is authorized under chapter 18 of this title to dispense controlled substances shal…

A. A hospital or a health professional who is working in a hospital that is not within fifty miles of a twenty-four-hour pharmacy, when discharging a patient with an acute illness or injury after regular pharmacy business hours, may dispense a twelve-hour supply of a schedule II …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means a health profession regulatory board that provides licensure, certification or registration and regulation pursuant to chapter 13, 15, 17, 19, 19.1 or 33 of this title. 2. "Database" means the health profess…

A. Beginning January 2, 2021, each board shall request from applicants for initial or renewal licensure, certification or registration or otherwise on an annual basis the designated database information prescribed in rule by the director pursuant to section 36-104. Each board sha…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the board of behavioral health examiners. 2. "Client" means a patient who receives behavioral health services from a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. 3. "Direct client contact" means the performance…

A. The board of behavioral health examiners is established consisting of the following members appointed by the governor: 1. The following professional members: (a) Two members who are licensed in social work pursuant to this chapter, at least one of whom is a licensed clinical s…

A. The board shall: 1. Adopt rules consistent with and necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter. 2. Administer and enforce this chapter, rules adopted pursuant to this chapter and orders of the board. 3. Issue a license by examination, endorsement or temporar…

(L24, Ch. 222, sec. 41. Eff. until 7/1/28) A. The board of behavioral health examiners fund is established. Pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the board shall deposit fifteen percent of all monies received by the board in the state general fund and deposit the remaining eigh…

A. Subject to title 41, chapter 4, article 4, the committee on executive director selection and retention established by section 32-3253 shall appoint an executive director who serves at the pleasure of the committee. The executive director is eligible to receive compensation set…

A. If delegated by the board, the executive director may dismiss a complaint if the investigative staff's review indicates that the complaint is without merit and that dismissal is appropriate. B. At each regularly scheduled board meeting, the executive director shall provide to …

For the purposes of this chapter, notifications or communications required to be written or in writing may be transmitted or received by mail, electronic transmission, facsimile transmission or hand delivery and shall not be transmitted or received orally.

A. The board shall establish an academic review committee for each professional area licensed pursuant to this chapter to do the following: 1. Review applications referred to the committee by the board or the executive director to determine whether an applicant, whose curriculum …

A. This chapter does not apply to: 1. A person who is currently licensed, certified or regulated pursuant to another chapter of this title and who provides services within the person's scope of practice if the person does not claim to be licensed pursuant to this chapter. 2. A pe…

A. For issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, including application fees, the board shall establish and charge reasonable fees not to exceed $500. B. For renewal of a license pursuant to this chapter, the board shall establish and charge reasonable fees not to exceed $50…

A. Except as provided in section 32-4301, a license issued pursuant to this chapter is renewable every two years by paying the renewal fee prescribed by the board and submitting documentation prescribed by the board by rule of completion of relevant continuing education experienc…