A financial relationship between any entity and a referring health services purveyor, or any immediate family member of a referring health services purveyor, which relationship was secured or facilitated either directly or indirectly by or through the efforts of a clinical laboratory, shall be deemed consideration given for referral of specimens for performance of clinical laboratory services, and is prohibited.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 §§ 34-2.14