Opinion ID: 852486
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Indiana Administrative Code

Text: Krueger argues, and the trial court held, that the Indiana Administrative Code obligat[ed] Krueger to provide written notice to his former patients that he had changed practice groups and that CIP implicitly authorized Krueger to utilize its patient list to accomplish this task. The Indiana Board of Podiatric Medicine's Standards of Professional Conduct provide that a podiatrist shall [g]ive reasonable written notice to a patient or to those responsible for the patient's care when the podiatrist withdraws from a case so that another practitioner may be employed by the patient or by those responsible for the patient's care. 845 Ind. Admin. Code 1-6-1 (2004). The regulations also provide that A podiatrist, upon his retirement, or upon discontinuation of the practice of podiatric medicine or surgery, or upon leaving or moving from a community, shall notify all of his active patients in writing, or by publication once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the community, that he intends to discontinue his practice of podiatric medicine and surgery in the community, and shall encourage his patients to seek the services of another practitioner. . . . Id. 1-6-6(b). These provisions do not either justify or call into question the validity of a restriction on the area in which a podiatrist may practice. They merely require notice to patients that the move will take place.