MD HB377

Adds physician assistants to the list of health care practitioners authorized to certify patient incapacity, order infirmary admission for pregnant incarcerated individuals, certify applications for voluntary and involuntary mental health facility admissions, and file emergency evaluation petitions

Requires health maintenance organizations to allow members to select a physician assistant, certified nurse-midwife, or licensed certified midwife as their primary care provider

Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe and dispense emergency use epinephrine under the Emergency and Allergy Treatment Program for youth camps, with corresponding liability protections

Adds one physician assistant member from the Maryland Academy of Physician Assistants to the Statewide Advisory Commission on Immunizations

Requires the Maryland Health Care Commission to review emergency department length-of-stay data for involuntary admission cases and report by November 1, 2026 on whether overnight staffing gaps affect wait times at facilities with physician assistants but limited certifying clinicians