2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 290. Podiatrists
Section 12-290-111. Prescriptions - requirement to advise patients - limit on opioid prescriptions - repeal.
(1) A podiatrist licensed under this article 290 may advise the podiatrist's patients of their option to have the symptom or purpose for which a prescription is being issued included on the prescription order.
A podiatrist's failure to advise a patient under subsection (1) of this section shall notbe grounds for any disciplinary action against the podiatrist's professional license issued under this article 290. Failure to advise a patient pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be grounds for any civil action against a podiatrist in a negligence or tort action, nor shall the failure be evidence in any civil action against a podiatrist.
(a) A podiatrist is subject to the limitations on prescribing opioids specified in section 12-30-109.
(b) This subsection (3) is repealed, effective September 1, 2021.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1553, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 12-32-107.5 as it existed prior to 2019.
(2) Before its relocation in 2019, this section was amended in SB 19-079. Those amendments were superseded by the repeal and reenactment of this title 12, effective October 1, 2019. For those amendments to the former section in effect from August 2, 2019, to October 1, 2019, see SB 19-079, chapter 86, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.
