Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2150 - State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
Chapter 9 - Licensing of Anesthesiologist Assistants
Section 20 CSR 2150-9.040 - Anesthesiologist Assistant Supervision Agreements
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines the terms used throughout this rule as applicable to anesthesiologist assistants, specifies the requirements for supervision agreements and practice of an anesthesiologist assistant pursuant to a supervision agreement.
(1) As used in this rule, unless specifically provided otherwise, the term-
(2) No anesthesiologist assistant shall practice pursuant to the provisions of sections 334.400 through 334.430, RSMo or to the provisions of this rule unless licensed and pursuant to a written anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement.
(3) A licensed anesthesiologist assistant practicing pursuant to an anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement shall work in the same facility as the supervising anesthesiologist.
(4) A supervising anesthesiologist as designated in the anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement shall at all times be immediately available to the licensed anesthesiologist assistant for consultation, assistance, and intervention within the same facility. No anesthesiologist assistant shall practice without an anesthesiologist's supervision or in any location where a supervising anesthesiologist is not immediately available for consultation, assistance and intervention, except as otherwise defined by law.
(5) Upon entering into an anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement, the supervising anesthesiologist shall be familiar with the level of skill, training and the competence of the licensed anesthesiologist assistant whom the anesthesiologist will be supervising. The provisions contained in the anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement between the licensed anesthesiologist assistant and the supervising anesthesiologist shall be within the scope of practice of the licensed anesthesiologist assistant and consistent with the licensed anesthesiologist assistant's skill, training and competence.
(6) The delegated health care services provided for in the anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement shall be consistent with the scopes of practice of both the supervising anesthesiologist and licensed anesthesiologist assistant including, but not limited to, any restrictions placed upon the supervising anesthesiologist's practice or license.
(7) The anesthesiologist assistant supervision agreement between a supervising anesthesiologist and a licensed anesthesiologist assistant shall-
(8) The board may require any supervising anesthesiologist to appear before the board to answer questions regarding supervision agreements and/or annual reviews of an anesthesiologist assistant.
*Original authority: 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995; 334.400, RSMo 2003; 334.402, RSMo 2003 and 334.414, RSMo 2003.