CEO SUMMARY: Florida law has long prohibited clinical laboratories from giving kickbacks and other forms of remuneration to physicians to induce specimen referrals. Specifically, state regulations have prevented labs from placing specimen collectors in physicians’ offices. Despite these clear prohibitions, labs regularly violated state rules by placing specimen collectors and other lab employees in physicians’ […]
In Florida, New Law Bans Certain Lab Sales Practices
Labs can no longer place phlebotomists in doctors’ offices nor lease phlebotomy space
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XIX No. 8 - June 4, 2012 Issue
