Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part I - General Administration
Subpart 3 - Licensing and Certification
Chapter 93 - Hospitals
Subchapter N - Nuclear Medicine Services (Optional)
Section I-9459 - Organization and Staffing

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code I-9459

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. The organization of the nuclear medicine services shall be appropriate to the scope and complexity of the services offered. There shall be a director who is a doctor of medicine or osteopathy qualified in nuclear medicine and named in the Department of Environmental Quality, Radiation Protection Division radioactive material license as authorized to use radioactive materials in humans.

B. Nuclear medicine services shall be ordered only by a practitioner whose scope of federal or state licensing and defined staff privileges allow such referrals.

C. The performance of nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures and the administration of radioactive material to humans may be accomplished only by the licensed physician practitioner or by the licensed nuclear medicine technologist.

AUTHORITY NOTE: promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:2100-2115.

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