22 §2030. Requested - Maine Statutes

Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE

Subtitle 2: HEALTH

Part 4: HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CARE

Chapter 411: MAINE MEDICAL LABORATORY ACT

Article 7: ACCEPTANCE, COLLECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND EXAMINATION OF SPECIMENS AND REPORTS OF FINDINGS

§2030. Requested

1. Request from authorized person. Except as otherwise provided, a medical laboratory shall examine specimens only at the request of a licensed physician or other person authorized by law to use the findings of laboratory examinations.

[ 1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW) .]

2. Exceptions. Notwithstanding this section, a medical laboratory may examine specimens without a physician referral for a limited number of laboratory services to be determined by rules adopted by the department. Those services include testing for:

A. Glucose for patients who have been previously diagnosed as having diabetes; [1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

B. Pregnancy; [1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

C. Colon cancer; and [1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

D. Cholesterol. [1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

[ 1993, c. 600, Pt. B, §15 (AMD) .]

3. Testing without referral. This section does not require any medical laboratory to perform laboratory services without a physician referral.

[ 1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1967, c. 380, (NEW). 1975, c. 218, (RPR). 1989, c. 665, §2 (RPR). 1993, c. 600, §B15 (AMD).