{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-36-2-19","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 36-2-19","heading":"Practitioner prohibited from referring patient to certain unaffiliated health care facilities.","body":"It is unprofessional for a practitioner of the healing arts to refer a patient to an unaffiliated health care facility in which the practitioner, the practitioner's immediate family, or a corporation or limited liability company owned in whole or in part by the practitioner has a substantial financial interest without disclosing the general nature of this interest to the patient, the patient's parent or guardian, at the time of the referral. As used in this section, a substantial financial interest is an ownership interest of twenty-five percent or more, a direct creditor's interest in twenty-five percent or more of the facility's debt, or a direct lessor's interest in twenty-five percent of more of a lease to the facility. Immediate family means the spouse and children of the practitioner. Such conduct constitutes grounds for discipline by the practitioner's appropriate licensing board.","path":["TITLE 36. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","CHAPTER 36-2. PRACTITIONERS OF HEALING ARTS IN GENERAL"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/36-2-19","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:57Z","sha256":"b37120303f73eeff505205bbc54a00af8db80cb98963b35ecd15aa89e8af83af","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-36-2-18","next":"us-sd/sdcl-36-2-20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}