Among the provisions is one requiring physicians to accept contract terms, including those covering fees, that Aetna could subsequently change.

The bill would also require physicians who wish to perform an abortion for health reasons to get another doctor to verify that the woman's health was at risk.

Missouri and Arizona, for example, require physicians to report the names of those infected -but provide anonymous testing.

One of the most controversial votes was in opposition to a bill that would have required physicians to present literature on abortion alternatives to patients.

The increasing reports of potential complications of use of anabolic steroids requires not only physicians but psychiatrists to raise their awareness of this problem.

Requiring attending physicians to recommend testing before birth will certainly cajole many more women to have the test, they said.

State law requires physicians or others hearing charges of child abuse to report the matter to local authorities.

This concept may seem simple, but in practice differentiating between these two groups requires experienced physicians.

At the company's request, the relatively few pharmacies that carry it are requiring physicians to fill out extensive paperwork to obtain it.

Hospital administrators, in putting a new computerized hospital-records network on line here in April, decided early not to require physicians to type their orders into the computers.