(1) A Certifying Physician Assistant who
wishes to issue a Written Certification for a Qualifying Patient shall have at
least one established place of practice in Massachusetts and shall hold:
(a) An active full license, with no
prescribing restriction, to practice as a physician assistant in
Massachusetts;
(b) A board
authorization by the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Physician
Assistants to practice as a physician assistant; and
(c) A Massachusetts Controlled Substances
Registration from the DPH.
(2) To register as a Certifying Physician
Assistant, a physician assistant shall submit, in a form and manner determined
by the Commission, the Certifying Physician Assistant's:
(a) Full name and business address;
(b) License number issued by the
Massachusetts Board of Registration of Physician Assistants;
(c) Board Authorization by the Massachusetts
Board of Registration of Physician Assistants;
(d) Massachusetts Controlled Substances
Registration number;
(e) An
attestation by the supervising physician for the physician assistant that the
physician assistant is certifying patients for medical use of Marijuana
pursuant to the mutually agreed upon guidelines between the physician assistant
and physician supervising the physician assistant's prescriptive practice;
and
(f) Any other information
required by the Commission.
(3) Once registered by the Commission, a
Certifying Physician Assistant will retain indefinitely a registration to
certify a Debilitating Medical Condition for a Qualifying Patient, unless:
(a) The physician assistant's license to
practice as a physician assistant in Massachusetts is suspended, revoked, or
restricted with regard to prescribing, or the physician assistant has
voluntarily agreed not to practice medicine in Massachusetts;
(b) The physician assistant's Board
Authorization to practice as a physician assistant in Massachusetts is
suspended, revoked or restricted with regard to prescribing;
(c) The physician assistant's Massachusetts
Controlled Substances Registration is suspended or revoked;
(d) The physician assistant has fraudulently
issued a Written Certification of a Debilitating Medical Condition;
(e) The physician assistant has certified a
Qualifying Patient for a Debilitating Medical Condition on or after the
effective date of the transfer of the program, without appropriate completion
of continuing professional development credits pursuant to
935
CMR 501.010(1); or
(f) The physician assistant surrenders his or
her registration.
(4)
After registering, a Certifying Physician Assistant is responsible for
notifying the Commission, in a form and manner determined by the Commission,
within five business days after any changes to the physician assistant's
information including, but not limited to, changes to the Certifying Physician
Assistant's license to practice or to his or her supervising
physician.