P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 281m
The Board may, after due notice and administrative hearing, censure and admonish any medical technologist who:
(a) Reveals data identifying a patient when it is obtained during the course of a physician-patient relationship, without the prior authorization of the patient, except when legally required or authorized.
(b) Carries out laboratory practices or methods for which he/she is not professionally authorized or qualified.
(c) Solicits or receives, directly or indirectly, fees, compensation, reimbursements or commissions for professional services that have not been rendered.
(d) Causes the personnel under his/her direction and supervision, by omission or commission, to incur illegal activities or perform laboratory acts or practices not allowed under the provisions of §§ 281—281p of this title or any other acts that regulate the health professions and services.
(e) Employs or delegates [to] unauthorized persons, or helps or instigates unauthorized persons to perform laboratory tests which, according to the provisions of §§ 281—281p of this title, may only be legally executed by duly licensed medical technologists.
(f) Harasses, abuses or intimidates patients.
(g) Denies his services to a patient without justified reason or cause.
(h) Advertises his medical technologist’s practice by false or deceitful means.
(i) A case of malpractice is adjudicated against him/her.
The Board shall establish, through regulations, the methods of censure and warning that shall apply to medical technologists who incur any of the above mentioned practices.
History —Aug. 11, 1988, No. 167, p. 733, § 15.