Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.162 (2026)

Physicians not to receive fee from laboratory.

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BILLING FOR CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES

Act 358 of 1972

445.162 Physicians not to receive fee from laboratory.

Sec. 2.

A person licensed to practice medicine by an agency of the department of licensing and regulation shall not receive a fee or other remuneration from a clinical laboratory or an intermediary for a clinical laboratory for submitting specimens from patients to a clinical laboratory.

History: 1972, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1980–1994 · leading case: United States v. Richard Tapert, Harvey Golden, Gerald Weingarden, Donald Freedlander & Robertgash, 625 F.2d 111 (6th Cir. 1980).

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United States v. Richard Tapert, Harvey Golden, Gerald Weingarden, Donald Freedlander & Robertgash, 625 F.2d 111 (6th Cir. 1980). “The physicians’ receipt of kickbacks for patient referrals to the laboratory is forbidden by both Section 21 of the Code of Ethics of the Michigan Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons and by state statute, Mich.”

BPS Clinical Labs. v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 522 N.W.2d 902 (Mich. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 2× “While it is true that at least one of the actions claimed by plaintiffs to be illegal involves an element of the plan the plan provision providing that physicians are paid $3 to draw blood if they send the blood to a panel laboratory, but not otherwise the law that the plan…”

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