HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(13)  Division of fees or agreeing to split or
divide the fees received for professional services with any
person for bringing to or referring a patient.

(13-1) Agreeing with clinical or bioanalytical
laboratories to make payments to such laboratories for
individual tests or test series for patients, unless the
physician discloses on the bills to patients or third party
payors the name of such laboratory, the amount or amounts
paid to such laboratory for individual tests or test series
and the amount of his procurement or processing charge, if
any, for each specimen taken.

(14)  Willful misrepresentation in treatments.

(15)  Practicing medicine with an unauthorized
person except in an accredited preceptorship or residency
training program; or aiding or abetting unauthorized persons
in the practice of medicine.

(16)  Gross and willful and continued
overcharging for professional services; including filing of
false statements for collection of fees for which services
are not rendered.

(17)  Offering, undertaking or agreeing to cure
or treat disease by a secret method, procedure, treatment or
medicine.

(18)  Professional, physical, or mental
incompetency.

(19)  Any act or omission which has resulted in
disciplinary action against the physician by the licensing
or disciplinary authority or court in another state,
territory, or country, which, if committed in this State,
would be unprofessional conduct pursuant to this section. A
copy of the judgment or proceeding under the seal of the
clerk of the court or a clerk of the administrative agency
which entered the same shall be admissible into evidence and
shall constitute prima facie evidence of unprofessional
conduct under this section.

(20)  FAILURE TO MEET STANDARDS OF QUALITY CARE
APPROPRIATE STANDARDS FOR THE DELIVERY OF QUALITY SURGICAL
CARE PERFORMED IN OUTPATIENT SURGICAL FACILITIES, OFFICES,
HOSPITALS, OR ANY OTHER LOCATION IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED
BY APPROPRIATE PEER REVIEW.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 20, 1980.