Revises provisions relating to physician assistants. (BDR 54-847)

AN ACT relating to professions; authorizing a physician assistant to bill and be reimbursed by a patient directly; providing that physician assistants are not required to be supervised by a physician or an osteopathic physician when performing medical services; prescribing the services that a physician assistant is required or authorized to perform; increasing the membership of the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; requiring two members of each of the Boards to be persons licensed to practice as a physician assistant in this State; providing certain exemptions from licensure and regulation by the Boards; revising provisions relating to a physician assistant whose license is on inactive status; revising provisions relating to the issuance of a license to practice as a physician assistant; prohibiting the respective Boards from requiring certain certifications before a person may renew a license to practice as a physician assistant; revising provisions relating to licensure by endorsement to practice as a physician assistant; authorizing certain unlicensed persons to use the title “physician assistant (inactive)”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.