Indiana Administrative Code
Title 845 - BOARD OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE
Article 1 - PODIATRISTS
Rule 6 - Standards of Professional Conduct
Section 6-5 - Referrals

Authority: IC 25-29-1-3

Affected: IC 25-29-1-6.1

Sec. 5.

A podiatrist may, whenever the podiatrist believes it to be beneficial to the patient, send or refer a patient to a qualified specific professional health care provider's scope of practice. Prior to any such referral, however, the podiatrist shall examine or consult with the patient to insure that a condition exists in the patient which would be within the scope of practice of the specific professional health care provider to whom the patient is referred or sent.

Transferred from the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana (844 IAC 8-6-5) to the Board of Podiatric Medicine (845 IAC 1-6-5) by P.L. 33-1993, SECTION 76, effective July 1, 1993.