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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="19-318" title_number="19" title_name="Social Workers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Before a licensee in a private individual, partnership, or group practice provides social work services to a client, the licensee shall provide to the client the following disclosures:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The licensee’s professional identity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The services which are or may be provided by the licensee and the fees for each service or the hourly rate; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Sufficient information for a patient to give informed consent regarding the nature of the services to be provided.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The manner of providing these disclosures shall be as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The licensee’s professional identity may be provided by directing the client to the license verification section on the Board’s website;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The licensee’s services and fees may be provided by documented discussion or printed fee schedule; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Informed consent may be provided by documented discussion or a written form signed by the client which is kept in the client’s file.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
