Physician-Patient Relationship. Authorizing Physician must have a physician-patient relationship with each patient under 14 years of age referred to Pharmacist. This requirement does not apply to an influenza vaccination administered by Pharmacist to a patient over seven years of age.
Physician-Patient Relationship. PacifiCare and Medical Group acknowledge and agree that each Medical Group Physician shall be responsible for maintaining the professional physician-patient relationship with each Member. Medical Group Physicians shall have the sole responsibility for the medical care and treatment of Members under Medical Group Physician's care. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to interfere with the professional relationship between any Member and Medical Group Physician.
Physician-Patient Relationship. It shall be the sole right and responsibility of Physician Group and the Physician Group Participating Physicians to create and maintain a physician/patient relationship with each Covered Person that Physician Group treats, and Physician Group and the Physician Group Participating Physicians shall be solely responsible to each such Covered Person for all aspects of medical care and treatment within the scope of a physician’s professional competence and license, including the quality and levels of such care and treatment.
Physician-Patient Relationship. Health Plan and Medical Group acknowledge and agree that Medical Group or each of Medical Group's Participating Providers shall maintain the physician-patient relationship with each Member. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to interfere with such physician-patient relationship. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to discourage or prohibit Medical Group and its Participating Providers from discussing treatment options or providing other medical advice or treatment deemed appropriate by Medical Group or its Participating Providers. Medical Group or its Participating Providers shall have the sole responsibility for the medical care and treatment of Members.
Physician-Patient Relationship. Physician shall have the sole right and responsibility to create and maintain a physician/patient relationship with each Covered Person that Physician treats. Physician shall be solely responsible for all aspects of medical care and treatment of each Covered Person that Physician treats within the scope of Physician’s professional competence and license, including the quality and levels of care and treatment that the Physician furnishes each Covered Person. Physician acknowledges that Physician has an independent responsibility to provide medical care to Covered Persons and that no action by CDA or a Payor shall absolve Physician of the responsibility to provide appropriate medical care to Covered Persons that the Physician treats.
Physician-Patient Relationship. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any Policy, a Provider shall retain sole responsibility for medical decision-making with regard to a specific patient. Nothing in this Agreement or any Policy shall be interpreted to supplant, interfere with, or impose restrictions on the traditional physician-patient relationship. No Policy shall substitute for or take precedence over any Provider’s duty to render care within the standard of care and all applicable legal duties and regulatory requirements.
Physician-Patient Relationship. IPA agrees that it will not intervene in any way or manner with the rendition of services by Physician, it being understood and agreed that, except to the extent provided in Section 3.2 of this Agreement, the relationship between physician and patient will be maintained.
Physician-Patient Relationship. As part of its MSSP obligations, the ACO shall define processes to promote MSSP enrollee engagement, which Participant shall adopt. Participant acknowledges, however, that each Contract Provider shall maintain an independent doctor-patient relationship with all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who are their patients and shall exercise independent professional judgment consistent with accepted standards of medical care in rendering treatment of such beneficiaries. Participant acknowledges that Participant and each Contract Provider are solely responsible to such patients for all treatment decisions made by them, including any decision not to treat, and that actions by ACO pursuant to utilization management, case management, referral management or other programs do not absolve Participant and its Contract Providers of their responsibility to provide appropriate medical care to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, regardless of whether the care is covered and/or reimbursable.
Physician-Patient Relationship. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to require APS PR Providers to: (i) recommend any procedure or course of treatment which an APS PR Provider deems professionally unacceptable; or (ii) recommend that Humana PR deny benefits for any procedure or course of treatment. APS PR acknowledges and shall require APS PR Providers to acknowledge that all patient care and related decisions are the sole responsibility of the APS PR Providers and that Humana PR does not dictate or control APS PR Providers' clinical decisions with respect to the medical care or treatment of Beneficiaries. Humana PR shall not intervene in any way or manner with the rendition of medical services by APS PR Providers, it being understood and agreed that the traditional relationship between Physician and patient will be maintained. APS PR agrees, and shall require APS PR Providers to agree, that any determination by APS PR or Humana PR as to whether a particular course of medical treatment constitutes a Covered Service shall not relieve APS PR Providers from providing or recommending such care to Beneficiaries as they deem to be medically appropriate. In the case of a dispute among a Beneficiary, APS PR and/or Humana PR whether a service is a Mental or Behavioral Health Service, the dispute will be resolved following the applicable Humana PR and ASES complaint, grievance and appeals procedure. APS PR and APS PR Providers agree to inform Beneficiaries of their right to appeal any utilization review or coverage determination in accordance with the Health Insurance Contract and the policies and procedures of APS PR, Humana PR and ASES.
Physician-Patient Relationship. Employer and Employee recognize the fact that Employee's treatment of patients as an employee of Employer shall not affect the Physician-Patient privilege. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to modify the Chiropractor-Patient privilege or the confidential relationship between a chiropractor and his patients as specified by law. Employer shall not impose employment duties or constraints of any kind that would require Employee to violate the ethics applicable to the practice of chiropractic services or violate any ordinance or law.
