64B8-30.012: Physician Assistant Performance
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Board proposes the development of rule amendments to address deletion of the requirement for co-signing medical charts pursuant to recent legislation removing the requirement.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Deletion of the requirement for co-signing medical charts pursuant to recent legislation removing the requirement.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 456.073(3), 458.309, 458.347(7)(e), (g), (12) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 456.073(3), 458.331, 458.347(7)(g), (12) FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE WEEKLY.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Larry McPherson, Jr., Executive Director, Board of Medicine/MQA, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C03, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3253
THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS:
64B8-30.012 Physician Assistant Performance.
(1) through (2) No change.
(3) All tasks and procedures performed by the physician assistant must be documented in the appropriate medical record. During the initial six months of supervision of each physician assistant all documentation by the physician assistant in a medical chart must be reviewed, signed and dated by a supervising physician within seven days. Subsequent thereto, a supervising physician must review, sign and date all documentation by a physician assistant in medical charts within 30 days.
(4) No change.
Rulemaking Specific Authority 458.309, 458.347(4)(a), (13) FS. Law Implemented 458.347(2), (3), (4), (13) FS. History–New 5-13-87, Amended 7-7-87, 11-15-88, 9-15-92, Formerly 21M-17.012, Amended 11-4-93, Formerly 61F6-17.012, 59R-30.012, Amended 10-13-98, 3-28-99, 11-17-03,_________.