Revises provisions relating to physician assistants. (BDR 54-522)

AN ACT relating to professions; authorizing a physician assistant to provide emergency care in certain emergency situations without the supervision of a physician or osteopathic physician; authorizing a physician to refuse to act as a supervising physician; prohibiting a supervising physician or supervising osteopathic physician from supervising more than 10 physician assistants at the same time; authorizing a supervising physician to supervise a physician assistant in person, electronically, telephonically or by fiber optics; providing that a person may be simultaneously licensed as a physician assistant by the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; requiring a supervising physician and supervising osteopathic physician to review and initial charts of patients of certain physician assistants; authorizing the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to adopt certain regulations; adding a physician assistant as a voting member to the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; providing that a license as a physician assistant is valid for 2 years; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.