My apologies for the late posting of this meeting. Some of the business is now somewhat outdated, but my summary is here nonetheless. I am not an official minute keeper, so please note that there may be an occasional error as I do not have the opportunity to double check this with the board.
Opening Business: Minutes of previous meeting approved, typos corrected,approved addition of OAR 850-060-225 and 226: Formulary Compendium and classifications.
Non-ND/ND investigations: The public is not meant to know who these people are, only a small degree of the circumstances. If an investigation leads to formal discipline, only then will the person names become public.
09-00-ON-1: Complaint regarding and advertisement of ND services where the ND had left the business. They were notified and addressed the problem promptly and the board dismissed the complaint as simple oversight. Dismissed with no action.
N08-09-20N: Closed case, overlapped with the medical board.
N09-05-11N: Other board licensee was selling supplements and diagnosing medical issues, investigation open
N09-05-12N: individual claiming to be an ND selling supplements. Investigation open.
09-02-04, 05, and 06: issued proposed discipline
08-08-18A: issued proposed discipline
09-00-ON1: Motion to close with no action
08-09-11N : Motion to close with no action
Bill Report:
SB 131: The Governor signed SB 131 changing the name of the Board from the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners to the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine. Look our for the OBNM this January!
SB 132: At this time was awaiting a vote on the House floor to increase the civil penalty maximum amount to $5000. This civil penalty amount is used by the Board to discipline licensees. (This was signed by G. Kulongoski on June 18)
SB 327A: This is the monumental bill that allows NDs to prescribe in accordance with their training rather than according to drug structure. At this time was passed by the Senate, 22-7, and awaiting a vote on the House floor. The initial bill was an exclusionary bill, meaning that it was going to be a short list of medications NDs couldn’t prescribe. Though Pharmacists and Nurses supported this, DOs and the OMB protested and requested an inclusionary bill as a compromise. This was adopted in the end, so a lengthy list is being compiled of all the drugs NDs can prescribe rather than a very short, simple list of all the drugs NDs can’t prescribe. (G. Kulongoski signed this into law June 18th!!!)
The Formulary council will tentatively be meeting September 11th, for those interested in weighing in on this process.
Continuing Education discussion:
A doctor/professor at NCNM proposed increasing the CE requirements to relate to and likely exceed those of MDs in Oregon. The goal is for Oregon to be a leader in the country as a state of quality alternative medical care. Additionally, it was brought up that by 2014 all practitioners will be required to use electronic medical records. There was a considerable discussion about how much to increase the hours by and across how many years. The Board was sensitive to the concerns that it would be cost-prohibitive to new practitioners and looked into options to make it easier. The recommendations will be transformed into rules for the next meeting.
Ended up with:
35 Hours Next year
50 hours the following and thereafter
No restrictions on subject areas, except 3 must be in ethics
10 hours must be “in person.” Virtual presence is not “in person.”
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