1.DEFINITIONS
"Board" means the Board of Licensure in Medicine.
"Group practice" means two or more physicians providing medical services in a shared setting, and includes associations, corporations, and partnerships, but does not include organized health care delivery systems or associations where the essential commonality is cross-coverage.
"Organized health care delivery system" includes but is not limited to any hospital, clinic, health maintenance organization, managed care organization, nursing home or other institutionalized or structured entity through which medical services are routinely prescribed or performed by two or more physicians. The term does not include group practices.
"Physician" means a physician who has an active license issued by the Board to practice medicine in the state.
"Physician assistant" means a person who has graduated from a physician assistant or surgeon assistant program accredited by the American Medical Association's Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation, or the Commission for Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs or its successor and/or who has passed the certifying examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants or its successor.
"Physician assistant students" means persons currently enrolled in physician assistant educational programs.
"Primary supervising physician' means a physician who has been approved by the Board pursuant to Chapter 3 to provide supervision of physician assistants, or who has been approved by, the Board pursuant to Chapter 3 to serve as the principal physician providing supervision to a physician assistant for an organized health care delivery system group practice.
"Secondary supervising physician" means a physician who has agreed in writing to provide supervision as defined in this section and has agreed to accept delegation of supervision from the primary supervising physician according to the written plan of supervision in Section 6c, and liability for the physician assistant The secondary supervising physician must be in a group practice with or treating the patient of the primary supervising physician.
"Supervision" means overseeing and accepting responsibility and liability for, the medical activities delegated by a physician to a physician assistant.
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