SB 219 Summary

• Redefines "supervision" of physician assistants to require supervising physicians to be immediately available in person or via telecommunication, and to work within the same facility as the physician assistant for at least four hours within one calendar day for every fourteen days the physician assistant provides patient care.

• Requires supervising physicians and physician assistants to attest on a board-provided form that the physician will provide appropriate supervision and that the physician assistant will not practice beyond their training and experience.

• Establishes that physician assistants may only practice at locations where the supervising physician routinely provides patient care, including patient homes and correctional facilities, and must be no further than fifty miles by road using the most direct route.

• Requires supervising physicians to review a minimum of ten percent of the physician assistant's patient charts every fourteen days and to see patients for new or significantly changed conditions within two weeks.

• Repeals provisions allowing waivers for alternate supervision requirements and removes distance limitations previously available through waiver processes, except for rural health clinics operating under federal Rural Health Clinic Services Act.