GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1067

SENATE BILL 831

 

AN ACT TO ADD VARIOUS ACTS WHICH MAY CONSTITUTE GROUNDS FOR DISCIPLINE OF CHIROPRACTORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-154(b) is amended by changing the period at the end of subdivision (8) to a semicolon and adding new subdivisions to read:

"(9)      Committing a fraudulent act or acts or engaging in fraudulent conduct in connection with the delivery of or charging for chiropractic services;

(10)     Offering to accept or accepting payment for services rendered by assignment from any third party payor after offering to accept or accepting whatever the third party payor covers as payment in full, if the effect of the offering or acceptance is to eliminate or give the impression of eliminating the need of payment by an insured of any required deductions applicable in the insured's policy;

(11)     Submitting to any third payor a claim for a service or treatment without also providing upon request a copy of the claim to the insured;

(12)     Reducing or offering to reduce, rebating or offering to rebate, discounting or offering to discount to an insured any payment, by the insured's third party payor to the licensee, for services or treatments rendered under the insured's policy;

(13)     Advertising any reduced or discounted fees for services or treatments or advertising any free services or treatments without prominently stating in the advertisement the licensee's usual fee for the service or treatment which is the subject of the discount, rebate, or free offering;

(14)     Submitting to any third party payor a claim for a service or treatment at a greater or an inflated fee or charge than the usual fee the licensee charges for that service or treatment when the service or treatment is rendered without third party reimbursement;

(15)     Advertising a fee or charge for a service or treatment which is different from the fee or charge the licensee submits to third party payors for that service or treatment."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1984.