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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 76. Department of Health Professions
Chapter 10. Regulations Governing the Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program for the Department of Health Professions
11/23/2024

18VAC76-10-100. Conflicts of interests.

A. The committee, contractor, or employees and agents of the contractor who refer practitioners for treatment shall not refer a practitioner to a treatment facility where the contractor, employees, or agents possess an investment interest, as defined in Chapter 24.1 (§ 54.1-2410 et seq.) of Title 54.1 of the Code of Virginia, unless it is an investment interest defined in § 54.1-2411 D of the Code of Virginia.

B. Likewise, the committee, the contractor, or its employees and agents as noted in subsection A of this section shall not have an investment interest in any laboratory that practitioners will be mandated to use for testing during the period of their contract.

C. The contractor shall offer multiple treatment options to any practitioner accepted into the program if treatment is a condition of participation unless the committee authorizes an exception.

D. A committee member who is providing treatment to a practitioner in the program shall disqualify himself from any decision related to such practitioner.

E. Any committee member who can or may be able to identify a practitioner in the program after the review of committee case reports shall recuse himself from any decision related to such practitioner. Committee members shall not attend committee meetings when such identified practitioner's case will be discussed.

Statutory Authority

§ 54.1-2516 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 13, Issue 22, eff. July 1, 1997; amended, Virginia Register Volume 41, Issue 4, eff. November 6, 2024.

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