| (1) Physicians, physician assistants, family nurse | practitioners, Medicare-certified rural health clinics, | professional associations or group practices performing | only tests acceptable to the department, as defined by | rule, exclusively for the examination of their own | patients; and |
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| (2) Physicians, physician assistants, family nurse | practitioners, Medicare-certified rural health clinics, | professional associations or group practices performing | tests, other than those listed in subparagraph (1), | exclusively for the examination of their own patients | are subject only to sections 2024, 2025 and 2039. |
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| Notwithstanding subparagraphs (1) and (2), laboratories | incorporated for the mutual use of physician or group | practice owners shall be are subject to all provisions of | this Act; |
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| D. Medical laboratories in a school, college, university or | industrial plant which that are under the direct supervision | of, and which whose services are used exclusively by, a duly | licensed physician and which that perform only tests | acceptable to the department; otherwise, only sections 2024, | 2025 and 2039 apply; |
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| E. Laboratories operated and maintained for research and | teaching purposes which that are recognized by the | department or involve no patient or public health service; |
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| F. The practice of radiology by a radiologist; and |
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| G. Laboratory services performing health screening tests as | defined and regulated by rule adopted by the department. | Services exempted under this paragraph include, but are not | limited to, the performance of screening tests for | cholesterol and colon cancer. |
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| | Sec. 22. 22 MRSA §2013-A, sub-§3 is enacted to read: |
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| | 3.__Public health reporting requirements.__Notwithstanding | subsection 1, any facility, regardless of location, that | receives, forwards or analyzes specimens of material from the | human body or referred cultures of specimens from the human body | and reports the results to health care providers who use the data | for purposes of patient care must comply with chapter 250. |
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| | Sec. 23. 26 MRSA c. 7, sub-c. 10 is enacted to read: |
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