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22 entriesSection 650Prohibits licensed healing-arts practitioners from giving or receiving compensation or inducements for patient referrals, while allowing fair-value payment for nonreferral services and…Section 650.01Prohibits covered licensees from referring patients for specified laboratory, imaging, therapy, rehabilitation, testing, or infusion services when the licensee or immediate family…Section 650.02Exempts specified referrals from the financial-interest prohibition, including when no alternative provider exists within 25 miles or 40 minutes, qualifying commercial loans,…Section 650.1Prohibits rental, lease, or service arrangements for pharmaceutical services or products that base payment on a percentage or portion of patient charges…Section 650.2Allows group advertising and referral services for dentists when referrals are patient-initiated, advertising complies with stated rules, fees are not referral-based, dentists…Section 650.3Allows group advertising and referral services for chiropractors when referrals are patient-initiated, advertising complies with applicable rules, no solicitor is used, fees…Section 651Prohibits licensed practitioners from using false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive public communications to induce professional services or product sales, including misleading photos,…Section 651.3Allows a labor organization, bona fide employee group, or association with a contracted health care service plan to inform members about available…Section 652Establishes that a licensed person’s violation of the article is unprofessional conduct supporting suspension or revocation of the professional or business license,…Section 652.5Establishes that, unless the article provides otherwise, any violation is a misdemeanor for licensed and unlicensed persons alike. The offense is punishable…Section 653Defines “person” for the article to include an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or cooperative association. The definition extends…Section 654Prohibits a physician licensed under the specified chapter from having membership, ownership, coownership, or profit-sharing arrangements with a licensed dispensing optician to…Section 654.1Requires specified dentists, physicians, and osteopathic licensees with an interest in a clinical laboratory to disclose that interest in writing when referring…Section 654.2Requires licensed practitioners with a significant beneficial interest in an organization to disclose the interest in writing before billing for or referring…Section 654.3Prohibits licensees and their staff from arranging open-end credit or loans with deferred interest and from charging third-party credit more than 30…Section 655Prohibits optometrists from specified ownership or profit-sharing relationships with dispensing opticians or optical companies, while allowing an optical company or dispensing optician…Section 655.2Prohibits physicians, medical corporations, and audiologists who are not licensed dispensing audiologists or hearing-aid dispensers from employing hearing-aid licensees to fit or…Section 655.5Prohibits billing for clinical laboratory services not actually rendered by the biller or under direct supervision unless the first billing discloses the…Section 655.7Prohibits billing for anatomic pathology services not actually rendered by the licensee or under direct supervision, while allowing specified billing by clinical…Section 655.8Prohibits billing for the technical component of CT, PET, or MRI services not actually rendered by the licensee or under supervision and…Section 656Allows a superior court to enjoin actual or threatened violations of the article on application by specified optometry, medical, podiatric, osteopathic, state,…Section 657Allows health care providers to give prompt-payment discounts within time limits they prescribe and to discount care for patients reasonably believed ineligible…