(2) Physicians, physician assistants, family nurse practitioners, Medicare-certified rural health clinics, professional associations or group practices performing tests, other than those listed in subparagraph (1), exclusively for the examination of their own patients are subject only to sections 2024, 2025 and 2039.

Notwithstanding subparagraphs (1) and (2), laboratories incorporated for the mutual use of physician or group practice owners shall be are subject to all provisions of this Act;

D. Medical laboratories in a school, college, university or industrial plant which that are under the direct supervision of, and which whose services are used exclusively by, a duly licensed physician and which that perform only tests acceptable to the department; otherwise, only sections 2024, 2025 and 2039 apply;

E. Laboratories operated and maintained for research and teaching purposes which that are recognized by the department or involve no patient or public health service;

F. The practice of radiology by a radiologist; and

G. Laboratory services performing health screening tests as defined and regulated by rule adopted by the department. Services exempted under this paragraph include, but are not limited to, the performance of screening tests for cholesterol and colon cancer.

Sec. 22. 22 MRSA §2013-A, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

3.__Public health reporting requirements.__Notwithstanding subsection 1, any facility, regardless of location, that receives, forwards or analyzes specimens of material from the human body or referred cultures of specimens from the human body and reports the results to health care providers who use the data for purposes of patient care must comply with chapter 250.

Sec. 23. 26 MRSA c. 7, sub-c. 10 is enacted to read:

SUBCHAPTER 10