Grossly unprofessional conduct when applied to a licensee or chiropractic facility includes, but is not limited to the following:

1. (1) maintaining unsanitary or unsafe equipment;
2. (2) failing to use the word "chiropractor," "Doctor, D.C.," or "Doctor of Chiropractic, D.C." in all advertising medium, including signs and letterheads;
3. (3) engaging in sexual misconduct with a patient within the chiropractic/patient relationship;
4. (4) exploiting patients through the fraudulent use of chiropractic services which result in financial gain for a licensee or a third party. The rendering of chiropractic services becomes fraudulent when the services rendered or goods or appliances sold by a chiropractor to a patient are clearly excessive to the justified needs of the patient as determined by accepted standards of the chiropractic profession;
5. (5) submitting a claim for chiropractic services, goods or appliances to a patient or a third-party payer which contains charges for services not actually rendered or goods or appliances not actually sold;
6. (6) failing to disclose, upon request by a patient or his or her duly authorized representative, the full amount charged for any service rendered or goods supplied.

Source Note:The provisions of this §75.1 adopted to be effective April 8, 1996, 21 TexReg 2538; amended to be effective August 2, 1998, 23 TexReg 7559.