Pennsylvania Code
Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS
Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 18 - STATE BOARD OF
Subchapter D - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT UTILIZATION
Section 18.153 - Executing and relaying medical regimens

(a) A physician assistant may execute a written or oral order for a medical regimen or may relay a written or oral order for a medical regimen to be executed by a health care practitioner subject to the requirements of this section.

(b) As provided for in the written agreement, the physician assistant shall report orally or in writing, to a supervising physician, within 36 hours, those medical regimens executed or relayed by the physician assistant while the supervising physician was not physically present, and the basis for each decision to execute or relay a medical regimen.

(c) The physician assistant shall record, date and authenticate the medical regimen on the patient's chart at the time it is executed or relayed. When working in a medical care facility, a physician assistant may comply with the recordation requirement by directing the recipient of the order to record, date and authenticate that the recipient received the order, if this practice is consistent with the medical care facility's written policies. The supervising physician shall countersign the patient record within a reasonable time not to exceed 10 days, unless countersignature is required sooner by regulation, policy within the medical care facility or the requirements of a third-party payor.

(d) A physician assistant or supervising physician shall provide immediate access to the written agreement to anyone seeking to confirm the physician assistant's authority to relay a medical regimen or administer a therapeutic or diagnostic measure.