71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 2828
 
                         Senate Bill 569
 
Sponsored by Senator FISHER; Senator CARTER, Representative
  MORRISETTE (at the request of Oregon Society of Physician
  Assistants)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Modifies circumstances under which physician may supervise up
to four physician assistants.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to supervision of physician assistants; amending ORS
  677.510.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 677.510 is amended to read:
  677.510. (1) A person licensed to practice medicine under this
chapter shall not use the services of a physician assistant
without the prior approval of the Board of Medical Examiners. The
application shall state the name of the physician assistant,
describe the manner and extent to which the physician assistant's
services would be used and supervised, state the education,
training and experience of the physician assistant and provide
such other information in such a form as the board may require.
  (2) The board may approve or reject an application, or it may
modify the proposed use of the services of the physician
assistant and approve the application as modified. Approval shall
be valid for no more than one year but may be renewed annually.
When it appears to the board that the services of a physician
assistant are being used in a manner inconsistent with the
approval granted, the board may withdraw its approval. If a
hearing is requested by the physician or the physician assistant
upon the rejection of an application, or upon the withdrawal of
an approval, a hearing shall be conducted in accordance with ORS
677.200.
  (3) The supervising physician may have a different specialty
from the physician assistant. A physician assistant may be
supervised by no more than four physicians. A physician may
supervise   { - two - }   { + four + } physician assistants.
 { - However, in population groups federally designated as
underserved, or in geographic areas of the state that are
federally designated health professional shortage areas,
federally designated medically underserved areas or areas
designated as medically disadvantaged and in need of primary
health care providers by the Director of Human Services or the
Office of Rural Health, a physician may supervise four physician
assistants. The board may review and approve applications from
physicians serving federally designated underserved populations,
or physicians in federally designated health professional
shortage areas, federally designated medically underserved areas
or areas designated as medically disadvantaged and in need of
primary health care providers by the Director of Human Services
or the Office of Rural Health to supervise more than four
physician assistants, and applications from physician assistants
to be supervised by more than four physicians. - }  A physician
assistant may render services in an emergency room and other
hospital settings, a nursing home, a corrections institution and
any site included in the practice description.
  (4) A licensed physician assistant may make application to the
board for emergency drug dispensing authority. The board shall
consider the criteria adopted by the Physician Assistant
Committee under ORS 677.545 (4) in reviewing the application.
Such emergency dispensing shall be of drugs prepared or
prepackaged by a licensed pharmacist, manufacturing drug outlet
or wholesale drug outlet authorized to do so under ORS chapter
689.
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