2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 - Public Health and Safety
RS 40:1155.4 - Physician, health care provider, and licensed emergency medical services practitioner responsibility
§1155.4. Physician, health care provider, and licensed emergency medical services practitioner responsibility
A. Any attending physician who refuses to comply with the provisions of a duly executed LaPOST form executed pursuant to this Subpart shall make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another physician.
B. No provision of this Subpart imposes a duty upon the physician or health care provider to make a search of whether a patient has executed a LaPOST form.
C. If the policies of a health care provider preclude compliance with the LaPOST form executed under this Subpart or preclude compliance with the provisions pertaining to a representative acting on behalf of a patient, then the health care provider shall take all reasonable steps to transfer the patient to a health care provider with which the provisions of this Subpart can be effectuated.
D. Licensed emergency medical services practitioners shall make a reasonable effort to detect the presence of an executed LaPOST form.
Acts 2010, No. 954, §1; Acts 2012, No. 789, §2, eff. June 13, 2012; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1299.64.4 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.
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