Nevada Code § 630.305

Accepting compensation to influence evaluation or treatment; inappropriate division of fees; inappropriate referral to health facility, laboratory or commercial establishment; charging for services not rendered; aiding practice by unlicensed person; delegating responsibility to unqualified person; failing to disclose conflict of interest; failing to initiate performance of community service; exception
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1. The following acts, among others,
constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure:
(a) Directly or indirectly receiving from any
person, corporation or other business organization any fee, commission, rebate
or other form of compensation which is intended or tends to influence the physicians
objective evaluation or treatment of a patient.
(b) Dividing a fee between licensees except where
the patient is informed of the division of fees and the division of fees is
made in proportion to the services personally performed and the responsibility
assumed by each licensee.
(c) Referring, in violation of NRS 439B.425 , a patient to a health
facility, medical laboratory or commercial establishment in which the licensee
has a financial interest.
(d) Charging for visits to the physicians office
which did not occur or for services which were not rendered or documented in
the records of the patient.
(e) Aiding, assisting, employing or advising,
directly or indirectly, any unlicensed person to engage in the practice of
medicine contrary to the provisions of this chapter or the regulations of the
Board.
(f) Delegating responsibility for the care of a
patient to a person if the licensee knows, or has reason to know, that the
person is not qualified to undertake that responsibility.
(g) Failing to disclose to a patient any
financial or other conflict of interest.
(h) Failing to initiate the performance of
community service within 1 year after the date the community service is required
to begin, if the community service was imposed as a requirement of the
licensees receiving loans or scholarships from the Federal Government or a
state or local government for the licensees medical education.
2. Nothing in this section prohibits a
physician from forming an association or other business relationship with an
optometrist pursuant to the provisions of NRS
636.373 .

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