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- Rhode Island Pathologists, CAP Amended Genetic Counselor Licensure Law Enacted
The Rhode Island Society of Pathologists (RISP) and the CAP’s previously amended genetic counselor scope of practice legislation (House Bill 6643) was enacted by Governor Dan McKee. In 2021, the RISP and the CAP successfully removed genetic counselors’ authority to interpret complex genetic test results.
The amendments were by a longstanding agreement between the CAP and the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). The CAP affirms the interpretation of genetic test results constitutes the practice of medicine that only physicians are qualified to do.
The law went into effect upon enactment.