Alabama Administrative Code
Title 540 - ALABAMA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Chapter 540-X-7 - ASSISTANTS TO PHYSICIANS
Section 540-X-7-.22 - Physician Assistants (P.A.) Not Employed By Supervising Physician/Physician Not In Full-Time Practice

(1) Under the circumstances where a physician assistant is seeking registration to a physician not regularly engaged in the full-time practice of medicine and/or in the circumstance where the physician and the physician assistant seeking registration are each employees of a legal entity other than a professional partnership, medical professional corporation, medical professional association or physician practice foundation, the applicant shall have the burden of satisfying the Board that there exists the supervisory relationship between the physician and the physician assistant contemplated by these rules.

(2) Factors to be used by the Board in determining the nature of the relationship shall include but are not limited to the following:

(3) In considering applications of the type described above, the Board may require that the applicant submit certificates in the form set forth in Appendix A to Chapter 7 from the Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer or other acceptable authority of any corporation, business firm or other legal entity which employs the physician assistant and the physician to whom the assistant is to be registered.