TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 6

PODIATRIC MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT

54-607.  unprofessional conduct defined. It shall constitute unprofessional conduct justifying suspension, revocation, or other discipline of a license for any person holding a license to practice podiatry to:

(1)  Offer, give, or promise, either directly or indirectly, any gift in return for the procurement of a patient or patients for podiatric treatment;

(2)  Request, list, accept, or receive any rebates or commission for prescribing or recommending any footwear, drug, medicine, or any other article, to his patients;

(3)  Prescribe, dispense, or pretend to use, in treating any patient, any secret remedial agent, or manifest or promote its use in any way, or guarantee or imply to guarantee any treatment, therapy, or remedy whatsoever;

(4)  Use any form of advertising that is false, misleading, or deceptive;

(5)  Use any title other than that of podiatrist or doctor of podiatric medicine. The term "foot specialist" or "physician and surgeon of the feet" may be used as explanatory terms of the title podiatrist but not alone or as a substitute therefor;

(6)  Employ a solicitor or solicitors to obtain business;

(7)  Publish or use untruthful or improbable statements with the intent of deceiving or defrauding the public or any patient; or

(8)  Violate the applicable standard of podiatric care for the ethical practice of podiatry in this state as described in this chapter.

History:

[54-607, added 2026, ch. 217, sec. 2, p. 905.]