2015 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Health
Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act
§ 68-29-126 - Suspension, revocation or denial of medical laboratory license -- Grounds.

The board has the power to suspend or revoke a medical laboratory license or to deny the issuance or renewal of a license or deny approval whenever a medical laboratory owner or director or owner of a medical laboratory training facility commits any of the following offenses:

(1) Making false statements on an application for a medical laboratory license or any other documents required by the board;

(2) Permitting unauthorized persons to perform technical procedures or to issue or sign reports;

(3) Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations and procedures;

(4) Reporting that is erroneous;

(5) Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;

(6) Referring a specimen for examination to a medical laboratory which has not been licensed under this chapter, with exceptions noted in § 68-29-104;

(7) Rendering a report on medical laboratory work actually performed in another medical laboratory without designating the name of the director and the name and address of the medical laboratory in which the test was performed;

(8) Having professional connection with or lending the use of the name of the licensed medical laboratory or its director to an unlicensed medical laboratory;

(9) Making statements, in writing or orally, of a character tending to deceive or mislead physicians, dentists or hospitals;

(10) Performing cytological and anatomical pathological examinations in a medical laboratory not under the direction of a pathologist certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, licensed to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee;

(11) Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter;

(12) Failing to file any request or report required by this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter; or

(13) Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.