2005 Minnesota Statutes - 144.565 — Diagnostic imaging facilities.

     144.565 Diagnostic imaging facilities. 


    Subdivision 1.    Utilization and services data; economic 
 and financial interests.  The commissioner shall require 
 diagnostic imaging facilities to annually report to the 
 commissioner, in the form and manner specified by the 
 commissioner: 


    (1) utilization data for each health plan company and each 
 public program, including workers' compensation, as follows: 


    (i) the number of computerized tomography (CT) procedures 
 performed; 


    (ii) the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 
 procedures performed; and 


    (iii) the number of positron emission tomography (PET) 
 procedures performed; and 


    (2) the names of all individuals with a financial or 
 economic interest in the facility. 


    Subd. 2.    Commissioner's right to inspect records.  If 
 the report is not filed or the commissioner of health has reason 
 to believe the report is incomplete or false, the commissioner 
 shall have the right to inspect diagnostic imaging facility 
 books, audits, and records. 


    Subd. 3.    Separate reports.  For a diagnostic imaging 
 facility that is not attached or not contiguous to a hospital or 
 a hospital affiliate, the commissioner shall require the 
 information in subdivision 1 be reported separately for each 
 detached diagnostic imaging facility as part of the report 
 required under section 144.702.  If any entity owns more than 
 one diagnostic imaging facility, that entity must report by 
 individual facility.  


    Subd. 4.    Definitions.  For purposes of this section, 
 the following terms have the meanings given: 


    (a) "Diagnostic imaging facility" means a health care 
 facility that provides diagnostic imaging services through the 
 use of ionizing radiation or other imaging technique including, 
 but not limited to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or 
 computerized tomography (CT) scan on a freestanding or mobile 
 basis. 


    (b) "Financial or economic interest" means a direct or 
 indirect: 


    (1) equity or debt security issued by an entity, including, 
 but not limited to, shares of stock in a corporation, membership 
 in a limited liability company, beneficial interest in a trust, 
 units or other interests in a partnership, bonds, debentures, 
 notes or other equity interests or debt instruments, or any 
 contractual arrangements; 


    (2) membership, proprietary interest, or co-ownership with 
 an individual, group, or organization to which patients, 
 clients, or customers are referred to; or 


    (3) employer-employee or independent contractor 
 relationship, including, but not limited to, those that may 
 occur in a limited partnership, profit-sharing arrangement, or 
 other similar arrangement with any facility to which patients 
 are referred, including any compensation between a facility and 
 a health care provider, the group practice of which the provider 
 is a member or employee or a related party with respect to any 
 of them. 


    (c) "Freestanding" means a diagnostic imaging facility that 
 is not located within a: 


    (1) hospital; 


    (2) location licensed as a hospital; or 


    (3) physician's office or clinic where the professional 
 practice of medicine by licensed physicians is the primary 
 purpose and not the provision of ancillary services such as 
 diagnostic imaging. 


    (d) "Mobile" means a diagnostic imaging facility that is 
 transported to various sites not including movement within a 
 hospital or a physician's office or clinic. 


    HIST: 2004 c 198 s 9