(1) A person regulated under this title 12 who regularly provides health-care services related to labor and delivery shall:
- (a) Be able to identify when to transmit and receive patient information, and transfer and receive patients, across the facility's levels of care; and
- (b) Coordinate with other providers to effectuate services across the facility's levels of care in a way that prevents patients losing access to care.
- (2) This section does not prohibit health-care providers from billing for health-care services rendered.
- (3) The acceptance of a transferred pregnant person does not establish an employment or consultation relationship between the accepting health-care provider and the transferring health-care provider or establish grounds for vicarious liability.
Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (SB 21-194), ch. 434, p. 2868, § 2, effective September 7.