North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Chapter 32 - NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD
Subchapter S - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Section .0200 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT REGISTRATION
Section 32S .0215 - RESPONSIBILITIES OF PRIMARY SUPERVISING PHYSICIANS IN REGARD TO BACK-UP SUPERVISING PHYSICIANS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) The primary supervising physician shall ensure that a supervising physician, either primary or back-up, is accessible for the physician assistant to consult whenever the physician assistant is performing medical acts, tasks, or functions.
(b) A back-up supervising physician shall be licensed to practice medicine by the Board, not prohibited by the Board from supervising a physician assistant, and approved by the primary supervising physician as a person willing and qualified to oversee the medical acts performed by the physician assistant in the absence of the primary supervising physician. A current list of all approved back-up supervising physicians, signed and dated by each back-up supervising physician, the primary supervising physician, and the physician assistant, shall be retained as part of the Supervisory Arrangement.
Authority
G.S.
90-18(c)(13);
90-18.1;
Eff.
September 1, 2009;
Amended Eff. May 1, 2015;
Pursuant
to G.S.
150B-21.3A rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. March 1,
2016.
