Amends existing law to include physical therapy in the definition of primary care provider.

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 754 BY HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE AN ACT1 RELATING TO THE IDAHO DIRECT PRIMARY CARE ACT; AMENDING SECTION 39-9203,2 IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE A DEFINITION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PRO-3 VIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.4

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:5

SECTION 1. That Section 39-9203, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby6 amended to read as follows:7 39-9203. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this chapter, the following8 definitions apply:9 (1) "Direct fee" means an agreed-upon fee charged by a primary care10 provider as consideration for providing and being available to provide di-11 rect primary care services described in a direct primary care agreement.12 (2) "Direct primary care agreement" means a written contract between a13 primary care provider and an individual patient or a patient's representa-14 tive in which the primary care provider agrees to provide direct primary care15 services to the patient over a specified period of time for payment of a di-16 rect fee.17 (3) "Direct primary care services" means those services that a primary18 care provider is licensed or otherwise legally authorized to provide and may19 include, but are not limited to, such services as screening, assessment, di-20 agnosis and treatment for the purpose of promoting health; detection, man-21 agement and care of disease or injury; or routine preventive or diagnostic22 dental treatment. Such services may be provided in a primary care provider's23 office, the patient's home or other locations where a patient visit with the24 primary care provider needs to occur.25 (4) "Patient" means a person who is entitled to receive direct primary26 care services under a direct care agreement.27 (5) "Patient's representative" means a person identified in section28 39-4504(1)(a) through (g), Idaho Code.29 (6) "Primary care provider" means a natural person licensed or other-30 wise legally authorized to provide health care services in the state of Idaho31 in the field of pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, physical32 therapy, or dentistry, who provides such services either alone or in profes-33 sional association with others in a form and within a scope permitted by such34 licensure or legal authorization for the provision of such services, and who35 enters into a direct primary care agreement.36

SECTION 2. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby37 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after38 July 1, 2026.39