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Pennsylvania Code



Subchapter C. PRACTICE BY AND THROUGH
BUSINESS ENTITIES


Sec.


16.21.    Professional corporations.
16.22.    Names of professional business entities.

§ 16.21. Professional corporations.

 A medical doctor may form a professional corporation with other medical doctors or other health care practitioners who treat human ailments and conditions and who are licensed in this Commonwealth to provide health care services without receiving a referral or supervision from another health care practitioner, if the boards which regulate those practitioners also permit the formation.

Authority

   The provisions of this §  16.21 amended under 15 Pa.C.S. § §  2903(d)(ii) and 2925(c).

Source

   The provisions of this §  16.21 amended April 8, 1994, effective April 9, 1994, 24 Pa.B. 1844. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (183340) to (183341).

§ 16.22. Names of professional business entities.

 Medical doctors and midwives who practice as individuals, partnerships, professional corporations, associations or other group practices may practice under a fictitious name. The name may not contravene medical ethics as determined by the Board and may not be, in the judgment of the Board, false, misleading or deceptive to the public.

Authority

   The provisions of this §  16.22 issued under 15 Pa.C.S. § §  2903(d)(ii) and 2925(c).

Source

   The provisions of this §  16.22 adopted April 8, 1994, effective April 9, 1994, 24 Pa.B. 1844.



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