Authority

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The Arkansas Medical Society, Inc. shall have the authority to establish a physicians' health committee and the Arkansas State Dental Association shall have the authority to establish a dentists' health committee to undertake the functions and responsibilities to carry out the purposes of this subchapter and may include any of the following:

  1. (1) Contracting with providers of treatment programs;

  2. (2) Receiving and evaluating reports of suspected impairment from any source;

  3. (3) Intervening in cases of verified impairment;

  4. (4) Referring impaired physicians or dentists to treatment programs;

  5. (5) Monitoring the treatment and rehabilitation of impaired physicians or dentists;

  6. (6) Providing posttreatment monitoring and support of rehabilitated impaired physicians and dentists; and

  7. (7) Performing such other activities as the committees deem necessary to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter.


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