2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 311 - PHYSICIANS, OSTEOPATHS, PODIATRISTS, AND RELATED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS 311.856 Duties of supervising physician.
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311.856 Duties of supervising physician.
A supervising physician shall:
(1) Restrict the services of a physician assistant to services within the physician
assistant's scope of practice and to the provisions of KRS 311.840 to 311.862;
(2) Prohibit a physician assistant from prescribing or dispensing controlled
substances;
(3) Inform all patients in contact with a physician assistant of the status of the
physician assistant;
(4) Post a notice stating that a physician assistant practices medicine or
osteopathy in all locations where the physician assistant may practice;
(5) Require a physician assistant to wear identification that clearly states that he or
she is a physician assistant;
(6) Prohibit a physician assistant from independently billing any patient or other
payor for services rendered by the physician assistant;
(7) If necessary, participate with the governing body of any hospital or other
licensed health care facility in a credentialing process established by the
facility;
(8) Not require a physician assistant to perform services or other acts that the
physician assistant feels incapable of carrying out safely and properly;
(9) Maintain adequate, active, and continuous supervision of a physician
assistant's activities to assure that the physician assistant is performing as
directed and complying with the requirements of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 and
all related administrative regulations;
(10) Sign all records of service rendered by a physician assistant in a timely manner
as certification that the physician assistant performed the services as
delegated;
(11) (a) Reevaluate the reliability, accountability, and professional knowledge of a
physician assistant two (2) years after the physician assistant's original
licensure in this Commonwealth and every two (2) years thereafter; and
(b) Based on the reevaluation, recommend approval or disapproval of
licensure or renewal to the board; and
(12) Notify the board within three (3) business days if the supervising physician:
(a) Ceases to supervise or employ the physician assistant; or
(b) Believes in good faith that a physician assistant violated any disciplinary
rule of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 or related administrative regulations.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 9, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created
2002 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 31, 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."
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2002). Although 2002 Ky. Acts
ch. 130, sec. 31, subsection (1), has a reference to "Sections 32 to 34 of this
Act" (which sections were codified as KRS 311.858 and 311.862) that reference
has been codified as KRS 311.840 to 311.862" as the reference to "Sections
32..." was a manifest clerical or typographical error that should have read
"Sections 23..." and has been corrected in codification under KRS 7.136(1)(h).
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