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SECTION 4501
Medical referral service businesses prohibited
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 45
§ 4501. Medical referral service businesses prohibited. 1. No person,
firm, partnership, association or corporation, or agent or employee
thereof, shall engage in for profit any business or service which in
whole or in part includes the referral or recommendation of persons to a
physician, dentist, hospital, health related facility, or dispensary for
any form of medical or dental care or treatment of any ailment or
physical condition. The imposition of a fee or charge for any such
referral or recommendation shall create a presumption that the business
or service is engaged in for profit.

2. No physician, dentist, hospital, health related facility or
dispensary shall enter into a contract or other form of agreement to
accept for medical or dental care or treatment any person referred or
recommended for such care or treatment by a medical or dental referral
service business located in or doing business in another state if the
medical or dental referral service business would be prohibited under
this section if the business were located in or doing business in this
state.