Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part XLV - Medical Professions
Subpart 3 - Practice
Chapter 61 - Medical Psychologists
Subchapter C - Ethical Guidelines, Authority, Limitations and Standards of Practice
Section XLV-6113 - Limitations of Practice

1. order, administer, prescribe or distribute drugs that are not customarily used for the management of mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse and cognitive diseases or disorders;

2 order, administer, prescribe or distribute narcotics, as defined in this Part;

3. utilize controlled substances for the treatment of non-cancer related chronic or intractable pain, as set forth in §6915-6923 of the board's rules or for the treatment of obesity, as set forth in §6901-6913 of the board's rules;

4. prescribe medications outside his or her areas of competency consistent with his or her training and experience as defined by the board;

5. delegate the administration, prescription, or distribution of a drug to any other individual;

6. engage in practice beyond the authority conferred by license or certificate approved by the board; or

7. employ a physician or enter into an independent contractor or similar contractual or financial relationship with a physician with whom he or she consults or collaborates. The board may grant an exception to this requirement on a case-by-case basis where it has been shown to its satisfaction that such relationship is structured so as to prohibit interference with the physician's relationship with patients, his or her exercise of independent medical judgment and satisfaction of the obligations and responsibilities imposed by law and the board's rules on a physician.