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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="14-5G-18" title_number="14" title_name="Physicians" subtitle_number="5G" subtitle_name="Genetic Counselors">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 14–405 of this title, a disciplinary panel, on the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum of the disciplinary panel, may deny a license to any applicant, reprimand any licensee, place any licensee on probation, or suspend or revoke a license, if the applicant or licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license for the applicant or licensee or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is guilty of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Immoral conduct while practicing genetic counseling; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Unprofessional conduct while practicing genetic counseling;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Professionally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Physically incompetent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Mentally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Abandons a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Is habitually intoxicated;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Is addicted to or habitually abuses any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Provides professional services while:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Under the influence of alcohol; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article or any other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Promotes the sale of services, drugs, devices, appliances, or goods to a patient so as to exploit the patient for financial gain;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record in the practice of genetic counseling;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Willfully fails to file or record any report as required under law, willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of a report, or induces another to fail to file or record a report;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Breaches patient confidentiality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Pays or agrees to pay any sum or provide any form of remuneration or material benefit to any person for bringing or referring a patient or accepts or agrees to accept any sum or any form of remuneration or material benefit from an individual for bringing or referring a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Willfully makes a misrepresentation while practicing genetic counseling;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Willfully practices genetic counseling with an unauthorized individual or aids an unauthorized individual in practicing genetic counseling;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Willfully delegates a genetic counseling duty to an unlicensed individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Establishes a pattern of excessive or medically unnecessary procedures or treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>Offers, undertakes, or agrees to cure or treat disease by a secret method, treatment, or medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Is disciplined by a licensing or disciplinary authority or is convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country, or disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>Fails to meet appropriate standards for the delivery of genetic counseling services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <text>Willfully submits false statements to collect fees for which services are not provided;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Has been subject to investigation or disciplinary action by a licensing or disciplinary authority or by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Surrendered the license, if any, issued by the state or country; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Allowed the license, if any, issued by the state or country to expire or lapse;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>Willfully fails to report suspected child abuse in violation of § 5–704 of the Family Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="24">
      <text>Practices or attempts to practice beyond the authorized scope of practice;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="25">
      <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the licensee is licensed and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="26">
      <text>Practices or attempts to practice genetic counseling procedures or uses or attempts to use genetic assessments if the applicant or licensee has not received education and training in the performance of the procedure or the use of the genetic assessment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="27">
      <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation of the Board or a disciplinary panel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="28">
      <text>Fails to complete a criminal history records check under § 14–308.1 of this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="29">
      <text>Violates any provision of this title or any rule or regulation pertaining to genetic counseling that is adopted by the Board, the State, or the federal government.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in the Administrative Procedure Act, before the Board or a disciplinary panel takes any action under subsection (a) of this section, it shall give the individual against whom the action is contemplated an opportunity for a hearing before the Board or the disciplinary panel in accordance with the hearing requirements of § 14–405 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the filing of certified docket entries with the Board by the Office of the Attorney General, a disciplinary panel shall order the suspension of a license if the licensee is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere with respect to a crime involving moral turpitude, whether or not any appeal or other proceeding is pending to have the conviction or plea set aside.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After completion of the appellate process, if the conviction has not been reversed or the plea has not been set aside with respect to a crime involving moral turpitude, a disciplinary panel shall order the revocation of a license on the certification by the Office of the Attorney General.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If, after a hearing under § 14–405 of this title, a disciplinary panel finds that there are grounds under subsection (a) of this section to suspend or revoke a license, to reprimand a licensee, or to place a licensee on probation, the disciplinary panel may impose a fine subject to the Board’s regulations in addition to suspending or revoking the license, reprimanding the licensee, or placing the licensee on probation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall pay any fines collected under this section into the General Fund of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In addition to any sanction authorized under this section, a disciplinary panel may require a licensee to comply with specified terms and conditions determined by the disciplinary panel.</text>
  </level>
</section>
