Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) A physician assistant who engages in
unprofessional conduct is subject to disciplinary action under section 41 of
the act (63 P. S. §
422.41).
Unprofessional conduct includes the following:
(1) Misrepresentation or concealment of a
material fact in obtaining a license or a reinstatement thereof.
(2) Commission of an offense against the
statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the practice of physician assistants
or regulations adopted thereunder.
(3) Commission of an act involving moral
turpitude, dishonesty or corruption when the act directly or indirectly affects
the health, welfare or safety of citizens of this Commonwealth. If the act
constitutes a crime, conviction thereof in a criminal proceeding may not be a
condition precedent to disciplinary action.
(4) Conviction of a felony or conviction of a
misdemeanor relating to a health profession or receiving probation without
verdict, disposition in lieu of trial or an accelerated rehabilitative
disposition in the disposition of felony charges, in the courts of the
Commonwealth, a Federal court or a court of another State, territory or
country.
(5) Misconduct in practice
as a physician assistant or performing tasks fraudulently, beyond its
authorized scope, with incompetence, or with negligence on a particular
occasion or negligence on repeated occasions.
(6) Performance of tasks as a physician
assistant while the ability to do so is impaired by alcohol, drugs, physical
disability or mental instability.
(7) Impersonation of a licensed physician or
another licensed physician assistant.
(8) Offer, undertake or agree to cure or
treat disease by a secret method, procedure, treatment or medicine; the
treating, prescribing for a human condition, by a method, means or procedure
which the physician assistant refuses to divulge upon demand of the Board; or
use of methods or treatment which are not in accordance with treatment
processes accepted by a reasonable segment of the medical profession.
(9) Violation of a provision of this
subchapter fixing a standard of professional conduct.
(10) Continuation of practice while the
physician assistant's license has expired, is not registered or is suspended or
revoked.
(11) Delegating a medical
responsibility to a person when the physician assistant knows or has reason to
know that the person is not qualified by training, experience, license or
certification to perform the delegated task.
(12) The failure to notify the supervising
physician that the physician assistant has withdrawn care from a
patient.
(b) The Board
will order the emergency suspension of the license of a physician assistant who
presents an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety, as
required by section 40 of the act (63 P. S. §
422.40).
(c) The license of a physician assistant
shall automatically be suspended, under conditions in section 40 of the
act.
(d) The Board may refuse,
revoke or suspend a physician's registration as a supervising physician for
engaging in any of the conduct proscribed of Board-regulated practitioners in
section 41 of the act.
The provisions of this §18.181 amended under
sections 8, 13 and 36 of the Medical Practice Act of 1985 (63 P. S.
§§
422.8,
422.13 and
422.36).
