No person, except patients who are performing tests on themselves by order of their physician, shall examine human specimens without the written request of a physician, an intern or resident in an American Medical Association approved training program, a duly licensed optometrist, a duly licensed dentist, a duly licensed chiropractic physician, or other health care […]
The medical laboratory board shall be responsible for the establishment of the procedures and standards to be used for the proper collection, handling and preanalytic processing of laboratory samples and may promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for such procedures and standards. When blood is withdrawn from a patient in a home for the aged, […]
No person shall represent, or maintain an office or specimen collection station or other facilities for the representation of any medical laboratory situated in this state or any other state, that makes examinations in connection with the diagnosis and control of diseases, unless the medical laboratory is licensed in accordance with this chapter. The board […]
Records involving medical laboratory services and copies of requests and reports of laboratory tests shall be kept for a period of time and in a manner prescribed by the board. They shall be made available to authorized personnel of the board during regular operation hours of the laboratory for inspection.
Each medical laboratory director shall establish the director’s own quality control program acceptable to the board, including use of, where applicable, reference or control sera and other biological samples, concurrent calibration standards, and control charts recording.
The board has the power to suspend or revoke a medical laboratory license or to deny the issuance or renewal of a license or deny approval whenever a medical laboratory owner or director or owner of a medical laboratory training facility commits any of the following offenses: Making false statements on an application for a […]
The board has the power to suspend or revoke the licenses of medical laboratory personnel or special analysts or to deny the issuance of a license or a registration certificate whenever medical laboratory personnel or special analysts commit any of the following offenses: Making a false statement on an application for a license or any […]
The Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, shall govern the hearing and judicial review of all proceedings for suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter.
It is a violation of this chapter for any person to: Operate, maintain, direct or engage in the business of operating a medical laboratory, unless such person has obtained a medical laboratory license from the board, or is exempt under § 68-29-104; Operate, maintain, direct or engage in the business of operating a medical laboratory […]
The performance of any acts specified in § 68-29-129 by any person is a Class B misdemeanor.
The board, through the attorney general and reporter, in addition to the powers and duties expressed in this chapter with respect to the denial of a license, denial of a certificate of registration, and suspension or revocation of a license, is empowered to petition any chancery court having jurisdiction of any person within this state, […]
All fees for licensing and registration provided for under this chapter shall be credited to the board and used by the board for the administration of this chapter in accordance with former § 4-3-1011 [transferred to § 9-4-5117].
The commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, compiled in title 12, chapter 9, with the commissioner’s official counterpart in other states to perform on behalf of another state, examinations or tests upon specimens collected in that state, when it is determined by the commissioner that performing the examinations […]
The board shall receive administrative support from the division of health related boards of the department of health.
In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be a medical laboratory director, a person shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory director with a restricted license for a hospital licensed under this title for thirty (30) beds or fewer if the person is a physician licensed under title 63, […]
The board shall promulgate rules governing the assessment of costs against a licensee or other person found by the board to have violated any provision of this chapter. The costs assessed by the board may include only those costs directly related to the prosecution of the charges against the licensee or other person, including investigatory […]
In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be medical laboratory directors, a dentist licensed in this state, certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and certified in oral pathology by the Tennessee board of dentistry shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory director limited to the […]
Notwithstanding any provisions of official compilation Rules and Regulations of the State of Tennessee, Rule 1200-6-1, or any other rule promulgated by the medical laboratory board to the contrary, a Tennessee medical laboratory shall be licensed in accordance with the rules promulgated under authority of this chapter and as provided in this section if the […]
As used in this section: “Accountable care organization” or “ACO” means the term as defined by Section 3022 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), as amended; and “Clinical laboratory testing” means any test as defined under this section, or otherwise subject to Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act […]
