IC 16-21-2-9: Practice of medicine not authorized by chapter; performance of health care services not prohibited

Sec. 9. This chapter does not authorize a person or a state, county, or local governmental unit, division, department, board, or agency to engage in the practice of medicine. However, this chapter does not prohibit the performance of health care services by a hospital employee in a hospital when that performance is delegated or ordered by a licensed health practitioner if the services performed are within the practitioner's scope of practice.