2010 Ohio Revised Code
Title [47] XLVII OCCUPATIONS - PROFESSIONS
Chapter 4730: PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
4730.38 Recommendations for physician-delegated prescriptive authority.

4730.38 Recommendations for physician-delegated prescriptive authority.

(A) Not later than six months after the effective date of this section, the physician assistant policy committee of the state medical board shall submit to the board its initial recommendations regarding physician-delegated prescriptive authority for physician assistants. The committee’s recommendations shall address all of the following:

(1) Policy and procedures regarding physician-delegated prescriptive authority, including the issuance of certificates to prescribe under this chapter;

(2) Subject to the limitations specified in section 4730.40 of the Revised Code, a formulary listing the drugs and therapeutic devices by class and specific nomenclature that a supervising physician may include in the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to a physician assistant who holds a certificate to prescribe issued under this chapter;

(3) Any issue the committee considers necessary to assist the board in fulfilling its duty to adopt rules governing physician-delegated prescriptive authority, including the issuance of certificates to prescribe.

(B) After the board’s adoption of initial rules under section 4730.39 of the Revised Code, the committee shall conduct an annual review of its recommendations regarding physician-delegated prescriptive authority. Based on its review, the committee shall submit recommendations to the board as the committee considers necessary.

(C) Recommendations submitted under this section are subject to the procedures and time frames specified in division (C) of section 4730.06 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 05-17-2006