O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-9-12.1 (2019)

Reasonable care and skill; referrals

✓ 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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The doctor of chiropractic must bring to the exercise of that person’s profession a reasonable degree of care and skill, which shall include the determination of the need for chiropractic care, as defined in paragraph (2) of Code Section 43-9-1, and shall render treatment, referral to the appropriate health care provider, or both treatment and referral commensurate with that chiropractor’s findings. Any failure to refer to the appropriate health care provider may subject the doctor of chiropractic to the provisions of Code Section 43-9-12. Nothing in this Code section shall be deemed to expand or limit the chiropractic scope of practice.

History

Code 1981, § 43-9-12.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 910, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Referral to a medical group was outside the scope of chiropractic practice. - Chiropractor’s referral of a patient to a medical group technician for procedures outside the scope of chiropractic practice, without prior approval by or

consultation with a medical doctor, constituted a medical decision outside the scope of chiropractic practice. Colvard v. Mosley, 270 Ga. App. 106, 605 S.E.2d 838, 2004 Ga. App. LEXIS 1355 (2004).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Referral of patients for X-rays authorized. - Chiropractor can refer a patient for X-rays or magnetic resonance imaging if the referral is needed to determine appropriate chiropractic care or for

treatment for or evaluation of conditions which are outside the scope of practice of the chiropractor; this opinion supersedes 1993 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 93-11. 2006 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U2006-1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2004–2004 · leading case: Colvard v. Mosley, 605 S.E.2d 838 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004).

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Colvard v. Mosley, 605 S.E.2d 838 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 12× “The foregoing regulation states that it is “[i]n accordance with OCGA § 43-9-12.1,” which statute provides for the authorization and duty of the chiropractor to refer patients to the appropriate health care provider: The doctor of chiropractic must bring to the exercise of that…”

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