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Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Removes language providing that a collaborating physician may collaborate with a maximum of 5 full-time equivalent physician assistants. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987, removes language providing that a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches may enter into collaborative agreements with no more than 5 full-time equivalent physician assistants except in a hospital, hospital affiliate, or ambulatory surgical treatment center.
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that entering into an excessive number of written collaborative agreements with licensed physician assistants resulting in an inability to adequately collaborate and repeated failure to adequately collaborate with a physician assistant constitute grounds for disciplinary actions. Provides that a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches may not collaborate with more than 7 (rather than 5) full-time equivalent physician assistants except in a hospital, hospital affiliate, or ambulatory surgical treatment center. Provides that a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches may collaborate with more than 7 physician assistants when the services are provided in a federal primary care health professional shortage area with a Health Professional Shortage Area score greater than or equal to 12. Amends the Physician Assistant Act of 1987. Provides that a collaborating physician may collaborate with a maximum of 7 (rather than 5) full-time equivalent physician assistants. Provides that entering into an excessive number of written collaborative agreements with licensed physicians resulting in an inability to adequately collaborate and repeated failure to adequately collaborate with a collaborating physician constitute grounds for disciplinary actions. Effective January 1, 2019.
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