2005 Minnesota Statutes - 147A.17 — Physician assistant accountability.

     147A.17 Physician assistant accountability. 


    Subdivision 1.    Investigation.  The board shall 
 maintain and keep current a file containing the reports and 
 complaints filed against physician assistants in the state.  
 Each complaint filed with the board pursuant to section 214.10, 
 subdivision 1, shall be investigated according to section 
 214.10, subdivision 2. 


    Whenever the files maintained by the board show that a 
 medical malpractice settlement or award to the plaintiff has 
 been made against a physician assistant as reported by insurers 
 pursuant to this chapter, the executive director of the board 
 shall notify the board and the board may authorize a review of 
 the physician assistant's practice. 


    Subd. 2.    Attorney general investigation.  When the 
 board initiates a review of a physician assistant's practice, it 
 shall notify the attorney general who shall investigate the 
 matter in the same manner as provided in section 214.10.  If an 
 investigation is to be made, the attorney general shall notify 
 the physician assistant, and, if the incident being investigated 
 occurred there, the administrator and chief of staff at the 
 medical care facilities in which the physician assistant serves. 


    Subd. 3.    Access to hospital records.  The board shall 
 have access to hospital and medical records of a patient treated 
 by the physician assistant under review if the patient signs a 
 written consent form permitting such access.  If no consent form 
 has been signed, the hospital or physician assistant shall first 
 delete data in the record which identifies the patient before 
 providing it to the board. 


    HIST: 1995 c 205 art 1 s 16