2010 Ohio Revised Code
Title [47] XLVII OCCUPATIONS - PROFESSIONS
Chapter 4730: PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
4730.09 Services provided under physician supervisory plan.

4730.09 Services provided under physician supervisory plan.

(A) Under a physician supervisory plan approved under section 4730.17 of the Revised Code, a physician assistant may provide any or all of the following services without approval by the state medical board as special services:

(1) Obtaining comprehensive patient histories;

(2) Performing physical examinations, including audiometry screening, routine visual screening, and pelvic, rectal, and genital-urinary examinations, when indicated;

(3) Ordering, performing, or ordering and performing routine diagnostic procedures, as indicated;

(4) Identifying normal and abnormal findings on histories, physical examinations, and commonly performed diagnostic studies;

(5) Assessing patients and developing and implementing treatment plans for patients;

(6) Monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions;

(7) Exercising physician-delegated prescriptive authority pursuant to a certificate to prescribe issued under this chapter;

(8) Carrying out or relaying the supervising physician’s orders for the administration of medication, to the extent permitted by law;

(9) Providing patient education;

(10) Instituting and changing orders on patient charts;

(11) Performing developmental screening examinations on children with regard to neurological, motor, and mental functions;

(12) Performing wound care management, suturing minor lacerations and removing the sutures, and incision and drainage of uncomplicated superficial abscesses;

(13) Removing superficial foreign bodies;

(14) Administering intravenous fluids;

(15) Inserting a foley or cudae catheter into the urinary bladder and removing the catheter;

(16) Removing intrauterine devices;

(17) Performing biopsies of superficial lesions;

(18) Making appropriate referrals as directed by the supervising physician;

(19) Removing norplant capsules;

(20) Performing penile duplex ultrasound;

(21) Changing of a tracheostomy;

(22) Performing bone marrow aspirations from the posterior iliac crest;

(23) Performing bone marrow biopsies from the posterior iliac crest;

(24) Performing cystograms;

(25) Performing nephrostograms after physician placement of nephrostomy tubes;

(26) Fitting or inserting family planning devices, including intrauterine devices, diaphragms, and cervical caps;

(27) Removing cervical polyps;

(28) Performing nerve conduction testing;

(29) Performing endometrial biopsies;

(30) Inserting filiform and follower catheters;

(31) Performing arthrocentesis of the knee;

(32) Performing knee joint injections;

(33) Performing endotracheal intubation with successful completion of an advanced cardiac life support course;

(34) Performing lumbar punctures;

(35) In accordance with rules adopted by the board, using light-based medical devices for the purpose of hair removal;

(36) Administering, monitoring, or maintaining local anesthesia, as defined in section 4730.091 of the Revised Code;

(37) Applying or removing a cast or splint;

(38) Performing other services that are within the supervising physician’s normal course of practice and expertise, if the services are included in any model physician supervisory plan approved under section 4730.06 of the Revised Code or the services are designated by the board by rule or other means as services that are not subject to approval as special services.

(B) Under the policies of a health care facility, the services a physician assistant may provide are limited to the services the facility has authorized the physician assistant to provide for the facility. The services a health care facility may authorize a physician assistant to provide for the facility include the following:

(1) Any or all of the services specified in division (A) of this section;

(2) Assisting in surgery in the health care facility;

(3) Any other services permitted by the policies of the health care facility, except that the facility may not authorize a physician assistant to perform a service that is prohibited by this chapter.

Effective Date: 05-17-2006; 2008 SB279 01-06-2009