ArizonaArizona limits required progress notes by dialysis center social workers
Arizona limits how often regulators can require dialysis center social workers to record patient progress, with an exception for federal requirements to meet patient needs.
What it does
State regulators cannot require social workers at authorized outpatient dialysis centers to record patient progress more than once per quarter, unless federal requirements call for more frequent notes to meet patient needs.
Argument forLimiting required progress notes could reduce paperwork for dialysis center social workers, leaving more time to help patients.
Argument againstLimiting state-required progress notes could make changes in patients' needs harder to track when federal rules do not require more frequent notes.
More detail
Arizona's department overseeing outpatient treatment centers cannot require covered social workers to record patient progress more than once per quarter. The limit covers social workers employed by outpatient treatment centers authorized to provide dialysis, when recording a dialysis patient's progress in that patient's medical record. The limit does not apply when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency, requires more frequent notes to meet the patient's needs.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Jun 19Signed by Governor Katie HobbsBecame Law
- Jun 9Transmit to GovernorTo Governor
- Jun 2Transmit to Senate
- Vote recorded Passed. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 2PASSEDPassed House
- Mar 23House Placed on Consent Calendar
- Mar 16DPMinor
- Mar 10House Second ReadingMinor
- Mar 9House First Reading.Minor
- Mar 4Transmit to House
- Vote recorded Passed. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded do pass amended. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 4PASSEDPassed Senate
- Mar 4DPAMajor
- Feb 18DPMinor
- Feb 9Senate Second ReadingMinor
- Feb 5Senate First ReadingIntroduced
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