O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 34-9-25 (2019)

Patient self-referral

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Physicians treating workers’ compensation claimants shall comply with the provisions against patient self-referral as set forth in Chapter 1B of Title 43.

History

(Code 1981, § 34-9-25, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 676, § 1/HB 1240.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1995, p. 642, § 13, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.

Law reviews. - For note on the 1995 enactment of this article, see 12 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 280 (1995).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Constitutionality. - The notice requirement of O.C.G.A. § 34-9-31 of the Workers’ Compensation Truth in Advertis-

ing Act violated the First Amendment. Tillman v. Miller, 133 F.3d 1402 (11th Cir. 1998).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Constitutional challenges to compelled speech - General principles, 72 ALR6th 513.

Constitutional challenges to compelled speech - Particular situations or circumstances, 73 ALR6th 281.