PRINTER'S NO. 819
No. 745 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, LEMMOND, WOZNIAK AND MADIGAN,
MARCH 28, 2001
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
MARCH 28, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 20, 1985 (P.L.457, No.112),
2 entitled "An act relating to the right to practice medicine
3 and surgery and the right to practice medically related acts;
4 reestablishing the State Board of Medical Education and
5 Licensure as the State Board of Medicine and providing for
6 its composition, powers and duties; providing for the
7 issuance of licenses and certificates and the suspension and
8 revocation of licenses and certificates; providing penalties;
9 and making repeals," further providing for physician
10 assistants.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Section 13 of the act of December 20, 1985
14 (P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical Practice Act of 1985, is
15 amended by adding a subsection to read:
16 Section 13. Physician assistants.
17 * * *
18 (g.1) Emergency medical services.--A physician assistant may
19 only provide medical services in an emergency medical care
20 setting if the physician assistant has training in emergency
21 medicine, functions within the purview of the physician
1 assistant's written agreement and is under the direct
2 supervision of the physician assistant supervisor except in
3 critical access hospitals, as defined by the Medicare Rural
4 Hospital Flexibility Program authorized by section 4201 of the
5 Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33, 111 Stat. 369),
6 where upon application the board shall waive the direct
7 supervision requirement.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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