2020 Maine Revised 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
22 §2030. Requested

§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.  

[PL 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;   [PL 1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

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

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

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

[PL 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.  

[PL 1989, c. 665, §2 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

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