A. Any physician employing or sponsoring a physician's assistant pursuant to Section 61-6-6 NMSA 1978 or any osteopathic physician employing or sponsoring an osteopathic physician's assistant pursuant to the Osteopathic Physicians' Assistants Act [repealed] shall post a notice of such employment in a prominent place calculated to inform any member of the public entering the office of the physician or osteopathic physician. The notice shall further state the basis upon which charges for services of the assistant are calculated and how they differ, if at all, from the charges for services of the physician or osteopathic physician.
B. Any physician or osteopathic physician violating the provisions of Subsection A of this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
History: Laws 1981, ch. 251, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 2016, ch. 90, § 29 repealed the Osteopathic Physicians' Assistants Act, §§ 61-10A-1 to 61-10A-7 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 2016.
Cross references. — For penalties for misdemeanors, see 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.