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2002 SESSION

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HB 687 Physician assistants.

Introduced by: Robert Tata | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Physician assistants. Clarifies that the physician must provide continuous supervision of the assistant; however, the requirement for physician supervision of assistants must not be construed as requiring the physical presence of the supervising physician during all times and places of service delivery by an assistant. Further, this bill details that each team of supervising physician and physician assistant must identify the relevant physician assistant's scope of practice, including, but not limited to, the delegation of medical tasks as appropriate to the physician assistant's level of competence, the physician assistant's relationship with and access to the supervising physician, and an evaluation process for the physician assistant's performance. The Board of Medicine is required, pursuant to a second enactment clause, to promulgate emergency regulations to implement this provision.


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