Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure: Accepting compensation to influence evaluation or treatment; inappropriate division of fees; charging for services not rendered; aiding practice by unlicensed person; advertising services of unlicensed person; delegating responsibility to unqualified person; failing to disclose conflict of interest. The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying the issuance of a license:
1. Directly or indirectly receiving from any person any fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation which tends or is intended to influence the physician’s objective evaluation or treatment of a patient.
2. Dividing a fee between homeopathic physicians, unless the patient is informed of the division of fees and the division is made in proportion to the services personally performed and the responsibility assumed by each homeopathic physician.
3. Charging for visits to the homeopathic physician’s office which did not occur or for services which were not rendered or documented in the records of the patient.
4. Employing, directly or indirectly, any suspended or unlicensed person in the practice of homeopathic medicine, or the aiding, abetting or assisting of any unlicensed person to practice homeopathic medicine contrary to the provisions of this chapter or the regulations adopted by the Board.
5. Advertising the services of an unlicensed person in the practice of homeopathic medicine.
6. Delegating responsibility for the care of a patient to a person whom the homeopathic physician knows, or has reason to know, is not qualified to undertake that responsibility.
7. Failing to disclose to a patient any financial or other conflict of interest affecting the care of the patient.
Last modified: February 27, 2006