2010 Ohio Revised Code
Title [47] XLVII OCCUPATIONS - PROFESSIONS
Chapter 4730: PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
4730.42 Supervising physician's delegation authority - limitations.

4730.42 Supervising physician's delegation authority - limitations.

(A) In granting physician-delegated prescriptive authority to a particular physician assistant who holds a certificate to prescribe issued under this chapter, the supervising physician is subject to all of the following:

(1) The supervising physician shall not grant physician-delegated prescriptive authority for any drug or therapeutic device that is not listed on the formulary established in rules adopted under section 4730.39 of the Revised Code as a drug or therapeutic device that may be included in the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to a physician assistant.

(2) The supervising physician shall not grant physician-delegated prescriptive authority for any drug or device that may be used to perform or induce an abortion.

(3) The supervising physician shall not grant physician-delegated prescriptive authority in a manner that exceeds the supervising physician’s prescriptive authority.

(4) The supervising physician shall supervise the physician assistant in accordance with all of the following:

(a) The supervision requirements specified in section 4730.21 of the Revised Code and, in the case of supervision provided during a provisional period of physician-delegated prescriptive authority, the supervision requirements specified in section 4730.45 of the Revised Code;

(b) The physician supervisory plan approved for the supervising physician or the policies of the health care facility in which the physician and physician assistant are practicing;

(c) The supervision agreement approved under section 4730.19 of the Revised Code that applies to the supervising physician and the physician assistant.

(B)(1) The supervising physician of a physician assistant may place conditions on the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to the physician assistant. If conditions are placed on that authority, the supervising physician shall maintain a written record of the conditions and make the record available to the state medical board on request.

(2) The conditions that a supervising physician may place on the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to a physician assistant include the following:

(a) Identification by class and specific generic nomenclature of drugs and therapeutic devices that the physician chooses not to permit the physician assistant to prescribe;

(b) Limitations on the dosage units or refills that the physician assistant is authorized to prescribe;

(c) Specification of circumstances under which the physician assistant is required to refer patients to the supervising physician or another physician when exercising physician-delegated prescriptive authority;

(d) Responsibilities to be fulfilled by the physician in supervising the physician assistant that are not otherwise specified in the physician supervisory plan or otherwise required by this chapter.

Effective Date: 05-17-2006