Pennsylvania Code
Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS
Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 25 - STATE BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
Subchapter C - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PROVISIONS
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT UTILIZATION
Section 25.172 - Prohibitions

Universal Citation: 49 PA Code ยง 25.172

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024

(a) A supervising physician may not permit a physician assistant to independently practice medicine. Supervision shall be maintained at all times.

(b) A physician assistant may not:

(1) Maintain or manage an office separate and apart from the supervising physician's primary office for treating patients unless the Board has granted the supervising physician specific permission to establish a satellite operation under § 25.175 (relating to physician assistants and satellite operations).

(2) Independently bill patients for services provided.

(3) Independently delegate a task assigned to him by his supervising physician to another individual; list his name independently in a telephone directory or otherwise advertise, using the title "Physician Assistant" or "P.A." or another term in a manner which would indicate that he functions as an independent health care provider.

(4) Perform acupuncture.

(5) Pronounce a patient dead.

The provisions of this §25.172 issued under section 506 of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 186); and sections 10(h) and 16 of the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act; amended under section 16 of the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act (63 P. S. § 271.16); and section 902(b) of the Health Care Services Malpractice Act (40 P. S. § 1301.902(b)).

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