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 18.156 - Monitoring and review of physician assistant utilization

(a) Representatives of the Board will be authorized to conduct scheduled and unscheduled onsite inspections of the locations where the physician assistants are utilized during the supervising physician's office hours to review the following:

(b) Reports shall be submitted to the Board and become a permanent record under the supervising physician's registration. Deficiencies reported will be reviewed by the Board and may provide a basis for loss of the privilege to maintain a satellite location and disciplinary action against the physician assistant and the supervising physician.

(c) The Board reserves the right to review physician assistant utilization without prior notice to either the physician assistant or the supervising physician. It is a violation of this subchapter for a supervising physician or a physician assistant to refuse to comply with the request by the Board for the information in subsection (a).

(d) Additional inspections, including follow-up inspections may be conducted if the Board has reason to believe that a condition exists which threatens the public health, safety or welfare.