Sections
15 entriesSection 1240Limits the chapter so it does not authorize anyone to practice medicine and surgery or furnish physicians’ services, and does not repeal…Section 1241Establishes that the clinical-laboratory chapter generally covers California laboratories, laboratories testing specimens originating in California, and persons performing such testing or practice,…Section 1241.1Allows a licensed primary care clinic in a qualifying nonprofit network to receive a clinical-laboratory license covering testing for network patients when…Section 1242Allows a person licensed under the chapter to perform clinical-laboratory tests to perform disease skin tests, arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin puncture…Section 1242.5Allows the department, by regulation and notwithstanding specified exclusions, to authorize laboratory personnel certified under the referenced provision to perform venipuncture, arterial…Section 1242.6Allows registered nurses and respiratory care practitioners to perform arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin puncture for blood withdrawal or testing with specified…Section 1243Allows a regularly enrolled student at an accredited college or university, or an approved legally chartered training school, to perform arterial puncture,…Section 1244Allows nondiagnostic general health-assessment programs if they use CLIA-waived tests, screen asymptomatic people, avoid HIV and reportable conditions, use skin puncture and…Section 1244.1Requires an operator of a nondiagnostic general health assessment program to file specified location, assessment, schedule, and compliance documentation with each county’s…Section 1244.3Establishes primary enforcement responsibility for the specified nondiagnostic health-assessment provisions in the local health officer or authorized designee, including public-health laboratory directors.…Section 1244.4Limits local filing and enforcement fees under the specified nondiagnostic health-assessment provisions to $100, subject to annual adjustment by increases in the…Section 1245Allows an individual to perform blood-gas analysis when specified education, clinic or hospital setting, physician instruction, supervision, and physician interpretation requirements are…Section 1246Requires unlicensed clinical-laboratory phlebotomy workers to hold department certification, with training tied to experience: applicants under 1,040 work hours need at least…Section 1246.5Allows any person to request, and licensed clinical or public-health laboratories to perform, listed direct-access tests, including pregnancy, glucose, cholesterol, occult blood,…Section 1246.7Allows qualifying personnel to perform total-protein tests with digital refractometers in licensed plasma-collection centers when detailed education, five-hour procedure training, onsite supervision,…