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Department of Health Opinion Letters
The PDF files below are provided to the Health Law Section of the New
York State Bar Association by the Department of Health of the State of
New York. As additional opinions are issued they will be posted
here.
02/07/07
- Authorization to Disclose Patient Information
10/20/06
- Access to Patient Information
07/24/06
- Disposition of Remains
03/21/06
- Billing for Services Performed in Physicians Offices
11/03/05
- Hiring Relatives
12/07/04
- Ancillary Services in State Stark Law
07/02/04
- Cover Letter Re: Advisory Opinions
06/17/04
- Physician Referral Laws (Generally)
05/04/04
- Medical Records Release
03/19/04
- Laboratory Retention of Specimens
01/28/04
- Ancillary Services in State Stark Law
01/22/04
- Corporate Practice of Medicine
10/14/03
- Physician Practices with Third Party Payors
10/08/03
- New Operators for Purposes of Nursing Home Rate Rebasing
09/02/03
- Quarantine Powers of Local Health Officers and Local Boards of
Health
07/23/03
- Classification of Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin
07/23/03
- Laboratory Use of Contractor
07/23/03 - Fee Arrangements Between a Physicial
and Midwife
11/19/99
- State Stark (MRIs)
07/28/99
- State Stark
4/26/99
- State Stark – Lease Between Referral
“Partners”
04/29/98
- State Stark (Physician Office Lab and Risk Contract for courtesy
services
12/22/97
- HMO (Subcontracting of Risk)12/18/97
- State Stark (X-Rays)
12/12/97
- Fee Splitting – MSO Fees
08/29/97
- IME
08/26/97
- Employment of Laboratory Directors
04/17/97
- Fee Splitting –(No Percentage Fee for Billing Companies or
Otherwise)
08/07/96
- Lithotripsy – CON/Anti-Kickback and Corporate Practice
06/06/96
- PPO/IPA
04/19/96
- State Stark – MRIs
03/21/96
- HMO Contracting Issues
02/13/96
- HMO (Subcontracting of Risk)02/05/96 - State
Stark
02/01/96
- Out of State HMO Contracting with In-State MDs
11/21/95
- State Stark – Shared Services
10/25/95
- PHO/PPO Licensing Issues
09/25/95
- IME
08/14/95
- MD/Chiropractor Relationship
06/19/95
- Employment of Laboratory Directors
05/02/95
- Corporate Practice/Art 28/State Stark – MSO
04/04/95
- (State Stark) Shared Laboratories
03/03/95
- State Stark (Multi-Specialty Group)
03/03/95
- State Stark – Group Practice
03/03/95
- State Stark – In-Office Ancillary
01/18/95
- State Stark
10/25/94
- IME for Insurance Companies
07/11/94
- IME
06/13/94
- Fee Splitting – Administrative Services
03/22/94
- Fee Splitting
01/05/94
- Fee Splitting (MD and Chiropractor)
05/20/93
- MD/PT Relationship
01/22/93
- Fee Splitting (Unit Fees)
09/03/92
- Fee Splitting – Ultrasound
05/07/92
- Percentage Fee for Billing Sometimes Okay
03/27/89
- Fee Splitting (Physician Ownership of Entities to which they Refer
Limits on PC Activities)
10/25/88
- PHL 4501 (For-Profit Medical Referral Service Prohibited
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