Section 35-17-102 – Authority to Establish Professional Standard Review Organizations.
35-17-102. Authority to establish professional standard review organizations. Any local, county or state medical, dental, nursing, optometric, osteopathic, emergency medical or pharmacy society in Wyoming is hereby authorized to establish a professional standard review organization as defined in W.S. 35-17-101.
Section 35-17-103 – Exemption From Liability; Exception.
35-17-103. Exemption from liability; exception. Any professional standard review organization or a society or person rendering services as a member of a professional standard review organization functioning pursuant to this act is not liable either independently or jointly for any civil damages as a result of acts or omissions in his capacity as a member […]
Section 35-17-104 – Exemption From Liability for Witnesses.
35-17-104. Exemption from liability for witnesses. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person providing information to any professional standard review organization shall be held, by reason of having provided such information, to have violated any criminal law, or to be civilly liable under any law unless: (i) The information is unrelated to the […]
Section 35-17-105 – Information of Review Organizations to Be Confidential and Privileged.
35-17-105. Information of review organizations to be confidential and privileged. All reports, findings, proceedings and data of the professional standard review organizations is confidential and privileged, and is not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action, and no person who is in attendance at a meeting of the organization shall be […]
Section 35-17-106 – Election to Be Covered by Federal Immunity.
35-17-106. Election to be covered by federal immunity. (a) The state of Wyoming elects to be immediately covered by the immunity granted by the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, P.L. 99-660, Title IV adopted by Congress in 1986, to the extent authorized, as of the effective date of this section for all health […]
Section 35-17-101 – Definition.
35-17-101. Definition. (a) As used in this act: (i) “Professional standard review organizations” means: (A) Any medical, dental, optometric, nursing, osteopathic, emergency medical or pharmacy organization or a local, county, or state medical, dental, optometric, nursing, osteopathic and pharmacy society and any such society itself when such organization or society is performing any medical, dental, […]