2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 215. Chiropractors
Section 12-215-119. Professional review committee - immunity.
(1) If a professional review committee is established pursuant to this section to investigate the quality of care, including utilization review, being given by a person licensed pursuant to this article 215, it shall include in its membership at least three persons licensed under this article 215, but such committee may be authorized to act only by: (a) The board; or
(b) A society or an association of persons licensed pursuant to this article 215 whose membership includes not less than one-third of the persons licensed pursuant to this article 215 residing in this state if the licensee whose services are the subject of review is a member of such society or association.
(2) In addition to the persons specified in section 12-20-402, any member of a professional review committee, the professional review committee's staff, any person acting as a witness or consultant to the committee, any witness testifying in a proceeding authorized under this article 215, and any person who lodges a complaint pursuant to this article 215 is granted the same immunity, and is subject to the same conditions for immunity, as specified in section 1220-402.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1072, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-33-119.1 as it existed prior to 2019.
