Arizona Laws 36-472.01. Billing for laboratory costs; definition
A. A laboratory that provides anatomic pathology services shall not submit a bill to any person or entity other than the following:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-472.01
- laboratory: means any facility, agency, institution, medical office, health care institution, building, or place which provides through its ownership or operation facilities for the microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, hematological, cytologic, histologic, radiobioassay, cytogenetic, histocompatibility, pathological, toxicological or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of a disease or an impairment or the assessment of human health conditions or to determine the presence, absence or concentration of various substances in the body. See Arizona Laws 36-451
- Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation, whether or not organized for profit, or any other form of business enterprise. See Arizona Laws 36-451
1. The patient.
2. The responsible insurer or other third party payor.
3. The health care institution.
4. A referring laboratory, excluding the laboratory of the health professional who ordered the test.
5. A governmental agency or the agency’s public or private agent, agency or organization that is acting on behalf of the recipient of the services.
B. For the purposes of this section, "anatomic pathology services" includes cytology services, molecular pathology services, hematopathology, histopathology, surgical pathology, and blood banking services performed by a pathologist. Anatomic pathology services does not include the collection, packaging and transportation of the specimen.