81.   Physicians were barred from referring patients to medical businesses like home care agencies if they owned a stake in them.

82.   Press reports have linked the probe to concerns over billing of the federal Medicare program and whether doctors had improper financial incentives to refer patients.

83.   Physicians, armed with this information, could then quickly determine the degree of hardening in the arteries and refer patients to appropriate care.

84.   Recently, he said, he referred a patient for a test of her arteries that required taking nitroglycerin.

85.   Riccardi said it should be assumed that HIV patients should be referred to an HIV specialist.

86.   Several patients were referred by their doctors to a psychiatrist.

87.   She had such an optimistic outlook that her own surgeon asked if he could refer other patients to her.

88.   Similarly, because of the shortage, some private doctors are referring their patients to area clinics.

89.   Seven hundred people, residents and workers, flocked to a Crockett clinic set up to assess and refer potential patients.

90.   So he refers many patients needing surgery to Noon.