Regulations Governing the National Health Insurance Medical Care Article 6

A contracted hospital or clinic shall pass the outpatient prescription to a beneficiary who has the right to decide whether to select the contracted hospital or clinic where he or she receives the current medical service or any other contracted medical care institution in compliance with the law to fill the prescription or conduct laboratory testing, diagnostic examination, or disposal.Where a contracted hospital or clinic needs to transfer a beneficiary to another contracted medical care institution for dosage dispensation, laboratory testing, diagnostic examination, or disposal due to limited staff, facilities, equipment, or expertise, its physician shall issue an outpatient prescription to the beneficiary for the latter to receive medical service in another contracted medical care institution in compliance with the law or receive a referral for medical service according to the Regulations Governing the National Health Insurance Referral.A referral form may be issued to a beneficiary for referral of ancillary service of a laboratory testing or diagnostic examination in the preceding paragraph, or an outsourcing medical examination form may alternatively be issued whereby an outsourced examiner will test the collected specimens.