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MN Stat § 145C.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.11 — Immunities.

145C.11 IMMUNITIES. Subdivision 1. Health care agent. A health care agent is not subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability if the health care agent acts in good faith. Subd. 2. Health care provider. (a) With respect to health care provided to a patient with a health care directive, a health care provider is not subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or professional disciplinary action if the health care provider acts in good faith and in accordance with applicable standards of care. (b) A health care provider is not subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or professional disciplinary action if the health care provider relies on a health care decision made by the health care agent and the following requirements are satisfied: (1) the health care provider believes in good faith that the decision was made by a health care agent appointed to make the decision and has no actual knowledge that the health care directive has been revoked; and (2) the health care provider believes in good faith that the health care agent is acting in good faith. (c) A health care provider who administers health care necessary to keep the principal alive, despite a health care decision of the health care agent to withhold or withdraw that treatment, is not subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or professional disciplinary action if that health care provider promptly took all reasonable steps to: (1) notify the health care agent of the health care provider's unwillingness to comply; (2) document the notification in the principal's medical record; and (3) permit the health care agent to arrange to transfer care of the principal to another health care provider willing to comply with the decision of the health care agent. History:  1993 c 312 s 12; 1998 c 399 s 22
MN Stat § 145C.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.12 — Prohibited Practices.

145C.12 PROHIBITED PRACTICES. Subdivision 1. Health care provider. A health care provider, health care service plan, insurer, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital plan may not condition admission to a facility, or the providing of treatment or insurance, on the requirement that an individual execute a health care directive. Subd. 2. Insurance. A policy of life insurance is not legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawing of health care pursuant to the direction of a health care agent appointed pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to the implementation of health care instructions under this chapter. History:  1993 c 312 s 13; 1998 c 399 s 23
MN Stat § 145C.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.13 — Penalties.

145C.13 PENALTIES. Subdivision 1. Gross misdemeanor offenses. Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor: (1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a health care directive of a principal without the consent of the principal; (2) willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of a health care directive; (3) falsifies or forges a health care directive or a revocation of the instrument; (4) coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a health care directive; or (5) requires or prohibits the execution of a health care directive as a condition for being insured for or receiving all or some health care services. Subd. 2. Felony offenses. Whoever commits an act prohibited under subdivision 1 is guilty of a felony if the act results in bodily harm to the principal or to the person who would have been a principal but for the unlawful act. History:  1993 c 312 s 14; 1998 c 399 s 25
MN Stat § 145C.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.14 — Certain Practices Not Condoned.

145C.14 CERTAIN PRACTICES NOT CONDONED. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia. History:   1993 c 312 s 15
MN Stat § 145C.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.15 — Duty To Provide Life-sustaining Health Care.

145C.15 DUTY TO PROVIDE LIFE-SUSTAINING HEALTH CARE. (a) If a proxy acting under chapter 145B or a health care agent acting under this chapter directs the provision of health care, nutrition, or hydration that, in reasonable medical judgment, has a significant possibility of sustaining the life of the principal or declarant, a health care provider shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the provision of the directed health care, nutrition, or hydration if the provider has the legal and actual capability of providing the health care either itself or by transferring the principal or declarant to a health care provider who has that capability. Any transfer of a principal or declarant under this paragraph must be done promptly and, if necessary to preserve the life of the principal or declarant, by emergency means. This paragraph does not apply if a living will under chapter 145B or a health care directive indicates an intention to the contrary. (b) A health care provider who is unwilling to provide directed health care under paragraph (a) that the provider has the legal and actual capability of providing may transfer the principal or declarant to another health care provider willing to provide the directed health care but the provider shall take all reasonable steps to ensure provision of the directed health care until the principal or declarant is transferred. (c) Nothing in this section alters any legal obligation or lack of legal obligation of a health care provider to provide health care to a principal or declarant who refuses, has refused, or is unable to pay for the health care. History:  1993 c 312 s 16; 1998 c 399 s 26
MN Stat § 145C.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145C — Health Care Directives|Section 145C.17 — Opioid Instructions Entered Into Health Record.

145C.17 OPIOID INSTRUCTIONS ENTERED INTO HEALTH RECORD. At the request of the patient or health care agent, a health care provider shall enter into the patient's health care record any instructions relating to administering, dispensing, or prescribing an opioid. History:   2019 c 63 art 2 s 2
MN Stat § 146.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.01 — Definition; Practicing Healing And Practice Of Healing.

146.01 DEFINITION; PRACTICING HEALING AND PRACTICE OF HEALING. The term "practicing healing" or "practice of healing" shall mean and include any person who shall in any manner for any fee, gift, compensation, or reward, or in expectation thereof, engage in, or hold out to the public as being engaged in, the practice of medicine or surgery, the practice of osteopathic medicine, the practice of chiropractic, the practice of any legalized method of healing, or the diagnosis, analysis, treatment, correction, or cure of any disease, injury, defect, deformity, infirmity, ailment, or affliction of human beings, or any condition or conditions incident to pregnancy or childbirth, or examination into the fact, condition, or cause of human health or disease, or who shall, for any fee, gift, compensation, or reward, or in expectation thereof, suggest, recommend, or prescribe any medicine or any form of treatment, correction, or cure thereof; also any person, or persons, individually or collectively, who maintains an office for the reception, examination, diagnosis, or treatment of any person for any disease, injury, defect, deformity, or infirmity of body or mind, or who attaches the title of doctor, physician, surgeon, specialist, M.D., M.B., D.O., D.C., or any other word, abbreviation, or title to the person's name indicating, or designed to indicate, that the person is engaged in the practice of healing. History:  (5705-1) 1927 c 149 s 1; 1971 c 410 s 1; 1974 c 224 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2016 c 119 s 7
MN Stat § 146.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.13 — Registration Fees.

146.13 REGISTRATION FEES. Every person not hereinafter excepted from the provisions of this chapter authorized to practice healing in this state shall annually register with the director of the particular board of examiners which examined and registered or licensed the person to practice that branch or system of healing pursued; and shall, at that time, for the purpose of making such registration, sign and send to such director in writing the following: name, the name of the place, and the address, at which the practice of healing is engaged in, and pay to the director each year a fee in an amount to be fixed by rule of the respective board of examiners. Any person who shall change the address or place of practice during the year shall forthwith notify such director in writing of such change, giving such new address or place. The director of each board of examiners shall keep a proper register of all such persons and to each person so registering the proper board shall issue a certificate for the current year, signed by the president and the director and sealed with the seal of such board, setting forth name, the name of the place and the address at which the practice of healing is engaged in, and the branch or system of healing pursued. Any person not hereinafter excepted from the provisions of this chapter lawfully entitled to engage in the practice of healing in this state, and who shall not be currently registered as provided in this section, shall, within 30 days after first so engaging in the practice of healing, register with the proper examining board in the manner provided in this chapter, pay to the director of such board the fee above required, and received from such board a certificate as above prescribed for the balance of such year. Every person receiving a certificate, as herein provided, shall display the same in a conspicuous place in the office or other corresponding place where the practice of healing is pursued. All fees received by the director of any examining board for registration required by this section shall be paid to the general fund. The expenses of keeping proper registers, furnishing the certificates herein provided for, employing inspectors for procuring evidence of any violation of the laws administered thereby and aiding in the enforcement of such laws, and for such other expenses as may be necessarily paid or incurred in the exercise of its powers or performance of its duties, shall be paid from the appropriation made to the examining board. History:  (5705-13) 1927 c 149 s 13; 1955 c 365 s 1; 1959 c 345 s 1; 1967 c 111 s 1; 1975 c 233 s 1; 1985 c 247 s 25; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 282 art 2 s 38
MN Stat § 146.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.15 — Discrimination Against Systems Of Healing.

146.15 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SYSTEMS OF HEALING. The several boards or other officers whose duty it shall be to administer or carry into effect the provisions of this chapter shall, while exercising such authority, in no manner discriminate against any system or branch of healing. History:  (5705-15) 1927 c 149 s 15; 1974 c 224 s 3
MN Stat § 146.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.18 — Practicing Without Registering Or Displaying Certificate.

146.18 PRACTICING WITHOUT REGISTERING OR DISPLAYING CERTIFICATE. Any person who shall practice healing or attempt to practice healing in this state without having registered with the examining board in the system or branch of healing pursued, as herein provided, or without displaying a certificate of annual registration with the proper board of examiners, as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  (5705-18) 1927 c 149 s 18; 1974 c 224 s 4; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 146.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.19 — Other Offenses; Penalty.

146.19 OTHER OFFENSES; PENALTY. Any person implicated in employing fraud or deception in registering annually under this chapter shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. History:  (5705-19) 1927 c 149 s 19; 1955 c 868 s 1; 1971 c 410 s 7; 1974 c 224 s 5
MN Stat § 146.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146 — Healing Arts, Registration|Section 146.23 — Manual Or Mechanical Therapy.

146.23 MANUAL OR MECHANICAL THERAPY. Subdivision 1. Therapy. "Manual therapy" or "mechanical therapy" as used in this section means manipulation or adjusting joint articulation without anesthesia. Subd. 2. Training requirement. A person regulated under this chapter who is not otherwise authorized to provide manual therapy or mechanical therapy, intending to directly treat or normalize abnormal or dysfunctional articulations of the human body must be certified by the state board which regulates the person's practice as successfully completing training in manual or mechanical therapy at a level of not less than: (1) 555 hours of training to include lecture and supervised laboratory training; (2) 315 hours in the area of radiographic interpretation; and (3) 1,155 hours of supervised work in an outpatient setting. The training must be provided by an institution which is fully accredited in the area of chiropractic, medicine, osteopathic medicine, or physical therapy. Subd. 3. Diagnosis required before therapy. Before manual therapy or mechanical therapy is provided, a person licensed by a particular board of examiners to diagnose another person for any disease, injury, defect, deformity, or infirmity of the body must determine that the person to receive therapy does not have a condition that would contraindicate the therapy. If the person making the diagnosis is not also performing the therapy, that person must give a written diagnosis report prior to the initiation of therapy to the person performing the therapy and is responsible for ensuring that the person performing the therapy has complied with the training requirements under subdivision 2. Subd. 4. Rules. Any board that regulates persons affected by this section may adopt rules for the purposes of this section. Subd. 5. Penalty. A person who violates this section is subject to disciplinary action by the board that regulates the person's practice. Subd. 6. Scope of practice. Nothing in this section expands or limits the scope of practice of licensed physical therapists or occupational therapists certified by the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board. Subd. 7. Exemption. The provisions of subdivision 2 do not apply to physicians and doctors of osteopathic medicine licensed under chapter 147. History:  1993 c 293 s 1; 2000 c 260 s 23; 2016 c 119 s 7
MN Stat § 146A.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.02 — Office Of Unlicensed Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practice.

146A.02 OFFICE OF UNLICENSED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICE. Subdivision 1. Creation. The Office of Unlicensed Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practice is created in the Department of Health to investigate complaints and take and enforce disciplinary actions against all unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners for violations of prohibited conduct, as defined in section 146A.08. The office shall also serve as a clearinghouse on complementary and alternative health care practices and unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners through the dissemination of objective information to consumers and through the development and performance of public education activities, including outreach, regarding the provision of complementary and alternative health care practices and unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners who provide these services. Subd. 2. Rulemaking. The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to implement, administer, or enforce provisions of this chapter pursuant to chapter 14. History:   2000 c 460 s 10
MN Stat § 146A.025 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.025 — Maltreatment Of Minors.

146A.025 MALTREATMENT OF MINORS. Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the ability of a local welfare agency, local law enforcement agency, the commissioner of human services, or the state to take action regarding the maltreatment of minors under section 609.378 or chapter 260E. A parent who obtains complementary and alternative health care for the parent's minor child is not relieved of the duty to seek necessary medical care consistent with the requirements of section 609.378 and chapter 260E. A complementary or alternative health care practitioner who is providing services to a child who is not receiving necessary medical care must make a report under chapter 260E. A complementary or alternative health care provider is a mandated reporter under section 260E.06. History:  2000 c 460 s 11; 1Sp2020 c 2 art 8 s 31
MN Stat § 146A.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.04 — Immunity.

146A.04 IMMUNITY. Subdivision 1. Reporting. Any person, other than the unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner who committed the violation, health care facility, business, or organization is immune from civil liability or criminal prosecution for submitting a report to the office, for otherwise reporting to the office violations or alleged violations of this chapter, or for cooperating with an investigation of a report, except as provided in this subdivision. Any person who knowingly or recklessly makes a false report is liable in a civil suit for any damages suffered by the person or persons so reported and for any punitive damages set by the court or jury. An action requires clear and convincing evidence that the defendant made the statement with knowledge of falsity or with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity. The report or statement or any statement made in cooperation with an investigation or as part of a disciplinary proceeding is privileged except in an action brought under this subdivision. Subd. 2. Investigation. The commissioner and employees of the Department of Health and other persons engaged in the investigation of violations and in the preparation, presentation, and management of and testimony pertaining to charges of violations of this chapter are immune from civil liability and criminal prosecution for any actions, transactions, or publications in the execution of, or relating to, their duties under this chapter. History:   2000 c 460 s 13
MN Stat § 146A.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.05 — Disciplinary Record On Judicial Review.

146A.05 DISCIPLINARY RECORD ON JUDICIAL REVIEW. Upon judicial review of any disciplinary action taken by the commissioner under this chapter, the reviewing court shall seal the portions of the administrative record that contain data on a complementary and alternative health care client or a complainant under section 146A.03, and shall not make those portions of the administrative record available to the public. History:   2000 c 460 s 14
MN Stat § 146A.065 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.065 — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices By Licensed Or Registered Health Care Practitioners.

146A.065 COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES BY LICENSED OR REGISTERED HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS. (a) A health care practitioner licensed or registered by the commissioner or a health-related licensing board, who engages in complementary and alternative health care while practicing under the practitioner's license or registration, shall be regulated by and be under the jurisdiction of the applicable health-related licensing board with regard to the complementary and alternative health care practices. (b) A health care practitioner licensed or registered by the commissioner or a health-related licensing board shall not be subject to disciplinary action solely on the basis of utilizing complementary and alternative health care practices as defined in section 146A.01, subdivision 4, paragraph (a), as a component of a patient's treatment, or for referring a patient to a complementary and alternative health care practitioner as defined in section 146A.01, subdivision 6. (c) A health care practitioner licensed or registered by the commissioner or a health-related licensing board who utilizes complementary and alternative health care practices must provide patients receiving these services with a written copy of the complementary and alternative health care client bill of rights pursuant to section 146A.11. (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or restrict the commissioner or a health-related licensing board from imposing disciplinary action for conduct that violates provisions of the applicable licensed or registered health care practitioner's practice act. History:   2014 c 291 art 4 s 2
MN Stat § 146A.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 146A — Complementary And Alternative Health Care Practices|Section 146A.07 — Professional Accountability.

146A.07 PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY. The office shall maintain and keep current a file containing the reports and complaints filed against unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners within the commissioner's jurisdiction. Each complaint filed with the office must be investigated. If the files maintained by the office show that a malpractice settlement or award has been made against an unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner, as reported by insurers under section 146A.03, subdivision 5, the commissioner may authorize a review of the practitioner's practice by the staff of the office. History:   2000 c 460 s 16