General Standards Of Practice
This is Article 6 of the Code of Virginia, titled “General Standards Of Practice.” It is part of Title 54.1, titled “Professions And Occupations.” It is part of Subtitle III, titled “Professions And Occupations Regulated By Boards Within The Department Of Health Professions.” It is part of Chapter 29, titled “Medicine And Other Healing Arts.” It’s comprised of the following 21 sections.
- § 54.1-2962
- Division of fees among physicians prohibited
- § 54.1-2962.01
- Anatomic pathology services; fees
- § 54.1-2962.1
- Solicitation or receipt of remuneration in exchange for referral prohibited
- § 54.1-2962.2
- Physician-patient relationship; effect of certain emergency department treatment
- § 54.1-2963
- Selling vitamins or food supplements in connection with a practice of the healing arts
- § 54.1-2963.1
- Disclosure of medical treatment options
- § 54.1-2963.2
- (Expires July 1, 2018) Lyme disease testing information disclosure
- § 54.1-2964
- Disclosure of interest in referral facilities and clinical laboratories
- § 54.1-2965
- Repealed
- § 54.1-2966
- Physicians reporting disabilities to aircraft pilots licensing authorities exempt from liability; testifying in certain proceedings
- § 54.1-2966.1
- Physicians reporting disabilities of drivers
- § 54.1-2967
- Physicians and others rendering medical aid to report certain wounds
- § 54.1-2968
- Information about certain handicapped persons
- § 54.1-2969
- Authority to consent to surgical and medical treatment of certain minors
- § 54.1-2970
- Medical treatment for certain persons incapable of giving informed consent
- § 54.1-2970.1
- Individual incapable of making informed decision; procedure for physical evidence recovery kit examination; consent by minors
- § 54.1-2971
- Repealed
- § 54.1-2971.01
- Prescription in excess of recommended dosage in certain cases
- § 54.1-2971.1
- Disclosure for certain treatment of infertility
- § 54.1-2972
- When person deemed medically and legally dead; determination of death; nurses' or physician assistants' authority to pronounce death under certain circumstances
- § 54.1-2973
- Persons who may authorize postmortem examination of decedent's body