{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-81-11","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-81-11","heading":"Acceptance or discontinuation of patients.","body":"Those primary care providers who offer direct primary care services to their patients may not decline to accept new direct primary care patients or discontinue care to existing patients solely because of the patient’s health status. A direct primary care provider may decline to accept a patient if the practice has reached its maximum capacity, or if the patient’s medical condition is such that the provider is unable to provide the appropriate level and type of primary care services the patient requires. So long as the direct primary care provider provides the patient notice and opportunity to obtain care from another physician, the direct primary care provider may discontinue care for direct primary care patients if:\n(a) The patient fails to pay the periodic fee;\n(b) The patient has performed an act of fraud;\n(c) The patient repeatedly fails to adhere to the recommended treatment plan;\n(d) The patient is abusive and presents an emotional or physical danger to the staff or other patients of the direct practice;\n(e) The direct primary care provider discontinues operation as a direct primary care provider; or\n(f) The direct primary care physician feels that the relationship is no longer therapeutic for the patient due to a dysfunctional physician/patient relationship.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 81. Mississippi Direct Primary Care Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.83.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:33Z","sha256":"eabdff3640a54e355e383bfb404a4d3b829e8169ea7edfbbb4bbc2a6708343cf","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-81-9","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-83-1","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}