Form F07 – rev 12/07

Public Health Law Section 587 prohibits laboratories from donating supplies that have multiple uses (uses related to and unrelated to the collection process for specimens) to referring health service purveyors. Subpart 34-2 regulations, which create reasonable interpretations of the statute's broad prohibitions, permit a laboratory to provide, and a referring health services purveyor to accept, supplies of "a size, type and quantity reasonably related to the type and number of specimens being referred by the health services purveyor solely and exclusively for the collection, processing, storage, preservation, transport, acceptance or disposal of specimens and which have no generally accepted use in health care practices other than solely for the collection, processing, storage, preservation, transport or disposal of specimens."

* By special request of the physician only.