(1) (a) Subject to the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of this section, a professional review committee may be established pursuant to this subsection (1) to investigate the quality of care being given by a person licensed, registered, or certified pursuant to this article 245. If a professional review committee is established, it must include in its membership at least three persons licensed, registered, or certified under this article 245, and the persons must be licensees, registrants, or certificate holders in the same profession as the licensee, registrant, or certificate holder who is the subject of a professional review proceeding. (b) A professional review committee may be authorized to act only by a society or an association of persons licensed, registered, or certified pursuant to this article 245 whose membership includes not less than one-third of the persons licensed, registered, or certified pursuant to this article 245 residing in this state if the licensee, registrant, or certificate holder whose services are the subject of review is a member of the society or association. (2) In addition to the persons specified in section 12-20-402, a member of a professional review committee authorized by a board, a member of staff to a committee, a person acting as a witness or consultant to a committee, a witness testifying in a proceeding authorized under this article 245, and a person who lodges a complaint pursuant to this article 245 is granted the same immunity, and is subject to the same conditions for immunity, as specified in section 12-20-402.
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