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:

(1) Making false statements on an application for a medical laboratory license or any other documents required by the board;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-126

  • Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory owner: means a person or agency in whom is vested the rights of control, possession, and dominion of a medical laboratory, and, for the purposes of this chapter, includes a county, municipality, or any other owner of an institution operating a medical laboratory. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Permitting unauthorized persons to perform technical procedures or to issue or sign reports;
(3) Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations and procedures;
(4) Reporting that is erroneous;
(5) Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;
(6) Referring a specimen for examination to a medical laboratory which has not been licensed under this chapter, with exceptions noted in § 68-29-104;
(7) Rendering a report on medical laboratory work actually performed in another medical laboratory without designating the name of the director and the name and address of the medical laboratory in which the test was performed;
(8) Having professional connection with or lending the use of the name of the licensed medical laboratory or its director to an unlicensed medical laboratory;
(9) Making statements, in writing or orally, of a character tending to deceive or mislead physicians, dentists or hospitals;
(10) Performing cytological and anatomical pathological examinations in a medical laboratory not under the direction of a pathologist certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, licensed to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee;
(11) Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter;
(12) Failing to file any request or report required by this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter; or
(13) Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.
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