BILLING FOR CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES
Act 358 of 1972
AN ACT to regulate the billing or payment of a purveyor of clinical laboratory services; and to prescribe penalties.
History: 1972, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
445.161 Clinical laboratory work; billing patient or third party in excess of amount billed licensed person.
Sec. 1.
A person licensed to practice medicine by an agency of the department of licensing and regulation, a hospital, agency or any other entity billing patients or third parties for laboratory work, shall not bill a patient for laboratory work performed by a clinical laboratory for any amount in excess of the amount billed by the clinical laboratory to the licensed person for such services.
History: 1972, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
445.162 Physicians not to receive fee from laboratory.
Sec. 2.
A person licensed to practice medicine by an agency of the department of licensing and regulation shall not receive a fee or other remuneration from a clinical laboratory or an intermediary for a clinical laboratory for submitting specimens from patients to a clinical laboratory.
History: 1972, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
445.163 Violation; penalty.
Sec. 3.
A person who is in violation of section 1 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $500.00 or both.
History: 1972, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
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