2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-26. (Formerly Sec. 19-7). State laboratories. Services provided to whom. Regulations. Schedule of fees.
Sec. 19a-26. (Formerly Sec. 19-7). State laboratories. Services provided to
whom. Regulations. Schedule of fees. The Department of Public Health may establish,
maintain and control state laboratories to perform examinations of supposed morbid
tissues, other laboratory tests for the diagnosis and control of preventable diseases, and
laboratory work in the field of sanitation, environmental and occupational testing and
research studies for the protection and preservation of the public health. Such laboratory
services shall be performed upon the application of licensed physicians, other laboratories, licensed dentists, licensed podiatrists, local directors of health, public utilities or
state departments or institutions, subject to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner
of Public Health, and upon payment of any applicable fee as hereinafter provided. For
such purposes the department may provide necessary buildings and apparatus, employ,
subject to the provisions of chapter 67, administrative and scientific personnel and assistants and do all things necessary for the conduct of such laboratories. The Commissioner
of Public Health shall establish a schedule of fees based upon nationally recognized
standards and performance measures for analytic work effort for such laboratory services, provided the commissioner (1) shall waive the fees for local directors of health
and local law enforcement agencies and (2) may waive the fees, in full or in part, for
others if the commissioner determines that the public health requires a waiver. The
commissioner may waive fees for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing for nonprofit organizations if the organization provides combination chlamydia and gonorrhea test kits. The
commissioner shall also establish a fair handling fee which a client of a state laboratory
may charge a person or third party payer for arranging for the services of the laboratory.
Such client shall not charge an amount in excess of such handling fee.
History: P.A. 76-396 replaced "examinations" with "laboratory services", required adherence to regulations of health commissioner and added provision re imposition of schedule of fees, replacing previous requirement that services be performed free of charge; P.A. 77-496 added Subdiv. (3) allowing no charge for services where public health requires that no charge be made; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced commissioner of finance and control with secretary of the office of policy and management and, effective January 1, 1979, replaced commissioner and department of health with commissioner and department of health services; Sec. 19-7 transferred to Sec. 19a-26 in 1983; P.A. 84-77 deleted the authority of the secretary of the office of policy and management to establish a schedule of fees for laboratory services performed by state laboratories and deleted obsolete provision which had allowed performance of lab services without charge for state agencies until July 1, 1977; P.A. 90-13 added language on environmental and occupational testing, other laboratories, public utilities, fair market value and the handling fee; P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 exempted local law enforcement agencies from charge for laboratory services, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-250 authorized commissioner to waive fees for chlamydia and gonorrhea for nonprofit organizations providing kits, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-125 changed fees from "directly related to operating costs or fair market value" to "based upon nationally recognized standards and performance measures for analytic work effort", and changed provision allowing services "without charge" to required waiver of charges in Subdiv. (1) and permissive waiver in full or in part in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 1999.
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