Good-faith exam

Definition

The examination a prescriber owes a patient before a medical treatment may be delegated.

Why It Matters

The medical director term names who must hold the role. This names what that person has to do before a treatment happens, and the two live in different bodies of law: one is about who may own the entity, the other about what makes a single treatment lawful. The answer is not one national rule. California treats prescribing without an appropriate prior examination as unprofessional conduct, and since 2019 has said no synchronous interaction is required and a questionnaire can satisfy it. Ohio requires the physician to have seen and evaluated the patient for a vascular laser, and again after the first application before any continuation. That second look is the one that shows in a profit and loss, because a course of six sessions then carries two physician encounters.