1. (a) Before a licensee in a private individual, partnership, or group practice provides social work services to a client, the licensee shall provide to the client the following disclosures:

   1. (1) The licensee's professional identity;
   2. (2) The services which are or may be provided by the licensee and the fees for each service or the hourly rate; and
   3. (3) Sufficient information for a patient to give informed consent regarding the nature of the services to be provided.

2. (b) The manner of providing these disclosures shall be as follows:

   1. (1) The licensee's professional identity may be provided by directing the client to the license verification section on the Board's website;
   2. (2) The licensee's services and fees may be provided by documented discussion or printed fee schedule; and
   3. (3) Informed consent may be provided by documented discussion or a written form signed by the client which is kept in the client's file.

Added by Acts 2000, c. 554, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2000. Amended by Acts 2017, c. 548, § 1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2017, c. 549, § 1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2021, c. 781, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Acts 2021, c. 782, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021.