California Business and Professions Code 1241.1 – (a) A primary care clinic, licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) …
(a) A primary care clinic, licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of § 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, that is operating within a network of primary care clinics, may be issued a license to operate a clinical laboratory pursuant to Section 1265, which authorizes the conduct of clinical laboratory tests and examinations from its network of primary care clinics, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The central laboratory’s sole purpose is performing moderate or high complexity clinical laboratory tests and examinations, or both, for the patients of the clinics in the network.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 1241.1
- board: means any entity listed in Section 101, the entities referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600, the State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, and any other state agency that issues a license, certificate, or registration authorizing a person to engage in a business or profession. See California Business and Professions Code 31
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
(2) Prior to performing any tests or examinations, the central laboratory obtains a certificate under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. § 263a) (CLIA) and a state laboratory license for the appropriate complexity level of clinical laboratory testing pursuant to Section 1265.
(b) For purposes of this section, “network of primary care clinics” means two or more primary care clinics operated by the same nonprofit corporation with the same board of directors and the same corporate officers, and operating under the same procedures and protocols.
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 795, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2007.)