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IN HB1473
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/20/2011
Primary Sponsor
Peggy Welch
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AI Summary
- Allows physician assistants to pronounce death and authenticate any form that their supervising physician may authenticate
- Removes geographical restrictions requiring supervising physicians to be located within the same county or contiguous county as the physician assistant
- Eliminates the requirement for the medical licensing board to approve supervisory agreements and removes the two-physician-assistant limit per supervising physician, replacing it with a "good medical practice" standard
- Removes restrictions on physician assistants prescribing Schedule II controlled substances and drugs containing oxycodone, and eliminates the one-year employment requirement before a physician assistant may prescribe drugs
- Allows physician assistants to be supervised by more than one physician and eliminates the requirement for supervising physicians to review all patient encounters within 24 hours
Legislative Description
Physician assistants.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
1/20/2011
Full Bill Text
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