No physician, other health care provider, or hospital shall be civilly or criminally liable for any act or omission or advice, care, or service provided by an individual practicing midwifery outside of a hospital or resulting from the choice of a woman to give birth to a child outside of a hospital, provided the midwife is not employed to practice midwifery by the physician, health care provider, or hospital or is not practicing midwifery as an employee, member, or shareholder of a business entity in which the physician, health care provider, or hospital participates by way of receiving monetary or non-cash income and has actual knowledge of the midwife’s status as an employee, partner, member, or shareholder of the business entity.
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