2020 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 311 - Physicians, osteopaths, podiatrists, and related medical practitioners 311.850 Discipline of physician assistants.
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311.850 Discipline of physician assistants.
(1)
The board may revoke, suspend, deny, decline to renew, limit, or restrict the license
of a physician assistant, or may fine, reprimand or place a physician assistant on
probation for no more than five (5) years upon proof that a physician assistant has:
(a) Knowingly made or presented or caused to be made or presented any false,
fraudulent, or forged statement, writing, certificate, diploma, or other
document relating to an application for licensure;
(b) Practiced, aided, or abetted in the practice of fraud, forgery, deception,
collusion, or conspiracy relating to an examination for licensure;
(c) Been convicted of a crime as defined in KRS 335B.010, if in accordance with
KRS Chapter 335B;
(d) Been convicted of a misdemeanor offense under KRS Chapter 510 involving a
patient or a felony offense under KRS Chapter 510, KRS 530.064, or 531.310,
or has been found by the board to have had sexual contact, as defined in KRS
510.010, with a patient while the patient was under the care of the physician
assistant or the physician assistant's supervising physician;
(e) Become addicted to a controlled substance, as defined in KRS 311.550(26);
(f) Become a chronic or persistent alcoholic, as defined in KRS 311.550(25);
(g) Been unable or is unable to practice medicine according to acceptable and
prevailing standards of care by reason of mental or physical illness or other
condition including but not limited to physical deterioration that adversely
affects cognitive, motor, or perceptive skills, or by reason of an extended
absence from the active practice of medicine;
(h) Knowingly made or caused to be made or aided or abetted in the making of a
false statement in any document executed in connection with the practice of
medicine or osteopathy;
(i) Performed any act or service as a physician assistant without a designated
supervising physician;
(j) Exceeded the scope of medical services described by the supervising
physician in the applications required under KRS 311.854;
(k) Exceeded the scope of practice for which the physician assistant was
credentialed by the governing board of a hospital or licensed health care
facility under KRS 311.856 and 311.858;
(l) Aided, assisted, or abetted the unlawful practice of medicine or osteopathy or
any healing art, including the unlawful practice of physician assistants;
(m) Willfully violated a confidential communication;
(n) Performed the services of a physician assistant in an unprofessional,
incompetent, or grossly or chronically negligent manner;
(o) Been removed, suspended, expelled, or placed on probation by any health care
facility or professional society for unprofessional conduct, incompetence,
negligence, or violation of any provision of this section or KRS 311.858 or
311.862;
(p)
(2)
Violated any applicable provision of administrative regulations relating to
physician assistant practice;
(q) Violated any term of probation or other discipline imposed by the board;
(r) Failed to complete the required number of hours of approved continuing
education; or
(s) Engaged in dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct of character
likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public or any member thereof, as
described in KRS 311.597.
All disciplinary proceedings against a physician assistant shall be conducted in
accordance with the provisions of KRS 311.591, 311.592, 311.593, 311.599, and
KRS Chapter 13B and related administrative regulations promulgated under KRS
Chapter 311.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 39, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2020. -- Amended
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 158, sec. 51, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts
ch. 78, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 28,
effective July 15, 2002.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 11,
provides: "A physician assistant who is certified in Kentucky and in good standing on
the effective date of this Act [July 12, 2006] shall automatically be licensed under
Sections 1 to 10 of this Act [KRS 311.840, 311.842, 311.844, 311.845, 311.846,
311.848, 311.850, 311.852, 311.856, and 311.862] and shall be issued a physician
assistant license upon annual renewal."
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