West Virginia Code of State Rules
Agency 11 - Medicine
Title 11 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF MEDICINE
Series 11-01B - Licensure, Practice Requirements, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures, Continuing Education, Physician Assistants
Section 11-1B-18 - Denial of Licensure and Discipline
Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 52, December 27, 2024
18.1. The Board may deny an application for license, or other authorization to practice as a physician assistant and may discipline a physician assistant licensed or registered by the Board who, after a hearing, has been adjudged by the Board as unqualified due to any of the following reasons:
18.2. If a physician assistant is found guilty of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to any court of competent jurisdiction of any felony involving prescribing, selling, administering, dispensing, mixing or otherwise preparing any prescription drug, including any controlled substance under state or federal law, for other than generally accepted therapeutic purposes in a state or federal court of competent jurisdiction, the Board shall deny an application for licensure or revoke the physician assistant's license without resort to the procedures set forth in section 17 of this rule. A certified copy of the guilty verdict or plea rendered is sufficient proof for licensure denial or revocation.
18.3. If the Board determines that a physician assistant is unqualified, the Board may enter an order denying an application or imposing any limitation, restriction or other disciplinary measure set forth in W. Va. Code § 30-3-14(j) and/or 11 CSR 1A.
18.4. In their discretion, the Board and the Osteopathic Board may refer and receive information from one another concerning: