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 associates 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 prescribed or performed by 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 extender" means a nurse practitioner performing duties as defined in 32 M.R.S.A. § 2102 or a physician assistant as referred to in 32 M.R.S.A. § 3270-A, and defined in Chapter 2.
"Physician extender students" means persons currently enrolled in physician extender educational programs.
"Primary supervising physician" means a physician who has been approved by the Board pursuant to Chapter 3 to provide supervision of physician extenders, or who has been approval by the Board pursuant to Chapter 3 to serve as the principal physician providing supervision to a physician extender for an organized health care delivery system or 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 5.B, and liability for the physician extender. The secondary supervising physician must be in a group practice with or treating the patients of the primary supervising physician.
"Supervision" means overseeing and accepting responsibility and liability for, the medical activities delegated by a physician to a physician extender.
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