§ 37:1743 — Prohibition on direct solicitations

§1743. Prohibition on direct solicitations
A. A health care provider or person designated, contracted, or paid by the health care
provider, shall not directly solicit by phone or mail, patients or potential patients who,
because of their particular circumstances, are vulnerable to undue influence. Circumstances
in which patients or potential patients may be considered to be vulnerable to undue influence
include but are not limited to:
(1) When a person is known to the health care provider to have recently been
involved in a motor vehicle accident.
(2) When a person is known to the health care provider to have recently been
involved in a work-related accident.
(3) When a person is known to the health care provider to have recently been injured
by another person or as a result of another person's actions.
B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit advertising, except that
which is false, misleading, or deceptive, nor to prohibit outreach services for prenatal,
postpartal, child health care, and communicable disease control.
C. As used in this Section "health care provider" means any "health care provider"
as defined in R.S. 40:1231.1.

Legislative History

Acts 1991, No. 707, §1; Acts 1993, No. 657, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §3.