Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance.

Practice of medicine and other healing arts;provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners ofmedicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistanceto treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistanceincludes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, schedulingand participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney uponrequest, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed,and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medicalservices related to the litigation. The bill prohibits providersfrom refusing services to a patient who is insured or otherwise hasthe ability to pay for provided services on the ground that such personwas involved in an incident that is the subject of litigation orcould result in litigation.