Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The
board may refuse to issue, or may suspend, revoke or impose probationary or
other restrictions on, any license issued under this Chapter, or issue a
private or public reprimand, for the following causes:
1. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty
or nolo contendere to a criminal charge constituting a felony under the laws of
the United States or of any state;
2. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty
or nolo contendere to any criminal charge arising out of or in connection with
practice as a physician assistant;
3. fraud, deceit, or perjury in obtaining any
license or permit issued under this Chapter;
4. providing false testimony before the
board;
5. habitual or recurring
drunkenness;
6. habitual or
recurring use of morphine, opium, cocaine, drugs having a similar effect, or
other substances which may induce physiological or psychological
dependence;
7. aiding, abetting, or
assisting any physician in any act or course of conduct enumerated in Louisiana
Revised Statutes, Title 37, Section 1285;
8. efforts to deceive or defraud the
public;
9. incompetency;
10. immoral conduct in exercising the
privileges provided for by licensure under this Chapter;
11. persistent violation of federal or state
laws relative to control of social diseases;
12. interdiction or commitment by due process
of law;
13. inability to perform or
function as a physician assistant with reasonable skill or safety to patients
because of medical illness or deficiency; physical illness, including but not
limited to deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor skills;
and/or excessive use or abuse of drugs, including alcohol;
14. refusing to submit to the examination and
inquiry of an examining committee of physicians appointed or designated by the
board to inquire into the physician assistant's physical and mental fitness and
ability to provide patient services with reasonable skill and safety;
15. the refusal of the licensing authority of
another state to issue or renew a license, permit or certificate to act as a
physician assistant in that state, or the revocation, suspension or other
restriction imposed on a license, permit or certificate issued by such
licensing authority which prevents or restricts the functions, activities or
services of the physician assistant in that state; or
16. violation of any provision of this
Chapter, or of rules or regulations of the board or statute pertaining to
physician assistants;
17.
conviction or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any crime an
element of which is the manufacture, production, distribution, sale or exchange
of any controlled substance;
18.
prescribing legally controlled substances or any dependency-inducing medication
without legitimate medical justification therefor or in other than a legal or
legitimate manner; or
19. utilizing
prescriptive authority in violation of any of the provisions of §1501-1529 of
the board's rules.
B.
The board may, as a probationary condition, or as a condition of the
reinstatement of any license suspended or revoked hereunder, require the
physician assistant and/or the supervising physician group to pay all costs of
the board proceedings, including investigators', stenographers', and attorneys'
fees, and to pay a fine not to exceed the sum of $5,000.
C. Any license suspended, revoked or
otherwise restricted by the board may be reinstated by the board.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
37:1270(B)(6),
37:1360.23(D)and (F), 37:1360.31(B)(8).
