2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 47 - PHYSICIANS AND MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

• Section 40-47-5. Application of Chapter 1; conflict with other articles.
• Section 40-47-10. State Board of Medical Examiners; appointment; terms and vacancies; powers and duties.
• Section 40-47-11. Medical Disciplinary Commission; qualifications of members; hearings; service as expert witnesses.
• Section 40-47-20. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-25. Rights and privileges of licensees.
• Section 40-47-30. Licensure requirement; excepted activities; physician licensed in another state.
• Section 40-47-31. Limited and temporary licenses.
• Section 40-47-32. Permanent licenses; requirements; examinations; post-graduate medical residency training requirements; fee.
• Section 40-47-33. Academic license; qualifications; responsibility of dean for compliance with practice limitations.
• Section 40-47-34. Special volunteer licenses; waiver of fees; restrictions; qualifications.
• Section 40-47-35. Licensure as expert medical witness; waiver of fee.
• Section 40-47-36. Criminal history background checks; costs; confidentiality of information obtained.
• Section 40-47-37. Practice of telemedicine, requirements.
• Section 40-47-40. Continuing professional education.
• Section 40-47-41. License renewal; notification of change of address or adverse disciplinary action in another jurisdiction.
• Section 40-47-42. Reactivation of inactive license.
• Section 40-47-43. Renewal of expired license.
• Section 40-47-44. Application for reinstatement of license.
• Section 40-47-45. Appeal; presumption of service of notice of board action; review of motions for continuance and other interlocutory relief.
• Section 40-47-50. Administrative support; fees to cover costs of operation of board; maintenance of records.
• Section 40-47-70. Code of ethics.
• Section 40-47-80. Investigation of complaints.
• Section 40-47-90. Administering oaths.
• Section 40-47-100. Restraining orders.
• Section 40-47-110. Misconduct constituting grounds for disciplinary action; temporary suspensions; review of final actions; conduct subverting security or integrity of medical licensing examination process.
• Section 40-47-111. Disciplinary action in another state.
• Section 40-47-112. Attending patient while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; penalty; suspension and disqualification from practice.
• Section 40-47-113. Establishment of physician-patient relationship as prerequisite to prescribing drugs; unprofessional conduct.
• Section 40-47-114. Requiring professional competency, mental, or physical examination; request for review; obtaining records; confidentiality.
• Section 40-47-115. Jurisdiction of the board.
• Section 40-47-116. Initial complaint; informal conference; approval of agreement.
• Section 40-47-117. Formal complaint; service; answer; formal hearing by panel; filing of report with board; board action; notice.
• Section 40-47-118. Discovery; exchange of information and evidence; depositions; prehearing motions.
• Section 40-47-119. Information to be exchanged before hearing; admissibility; identification of relevant portions of information.
• Section 40-47-120. Sanctions; relinquishment of authorization to practice; issuance and notice of final orders.
• Section 40-47-130. Grounds for denial of licensure.
• Section 40-47-140. Denial of license based on prior criminal record.
• Section 40-47-150. Surrender of license; public disclosure.
• Section 40-47-160. Appeal.
• Section 40-47-170. Costs.
• Section 40-47-180. Collection of fines and costs.
• Section 40-47-190. Disclosure of information relating to proceedings; public access; information relating to patients and witnesses.
• Section 40-47-195. Supervising physicians; scope of practice guidelines.
• Section 40-47-197. Supervision of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.
• Section 40-47-200. Practice without license or with license obtained by submitting false information; penalty.
• Section 40-47-210. Civil action for injunctive relief against person or entity violating chapter; fines.
• Section 40-47-220. Severability.

• Section 40-47-500. Short title.
• Section 40-47-510. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-520. Licensing requirement.
• Section 40-47-530. Persons not subject to provisions of this article.
• Section 40-47-540. Respiratory Care Committee created; membership.
• Section 40-47-550. Terms of committee members; appointment and removal; expenses.
• Section 40-47-560. Committee meetings; election of officers; recommendation, review, and approval of regulations.
• Section 40-47-570. Employment of additional staff by director.
• Section 40-47-580. Requirement that board receive and account for monies and pay them to State Treasurer.
• Section 40-47-590. Responsibilities of committee; investigatory powers of board.
• Section 40-47-600. Requirements for certification of respiratory care practitioners.
• Section 40-47-610. Licensure of practitioners of other states; educational and examination requirements.
• Section 40-47-620. Issuance of license by board.
• Section 40-47-625. Temporary licenses.
• Section 40-47-630. Grounds for disciplinary action; recommendations of committee as to disciplinary action; appeal.
• Section 40-47-640. Renewal and reinstatement of licenses.
• Section 40-47-650. Fees.
• Section 40-47-655. Limited license to practice respiratory care.
• Section 40-47-660. Enforcement of article.

• Section 40-47-700. Citation of article.
• Section 40-47-705. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-710. Acupuncture Advisory Committee; membership; terms; filling vacancies; removal of members; meeting schedule; officers.
• Section 40-47-715. Powers and duties.
• Section 40-47-720. License to practice acupuncture; requirements and qualifications; temporary licenses.
• Section 40-47-725. Licensing of current acupuncture practitioners.
• Section 40-47-730. Licenses to perform auricular therapy; qualifications; temporary licenses.
• Section 40-47-735. Licenses to perform auricular detoxification therapy; qualifications; temporary licenses.
• Section 40-47-740. Licensing of current auricular therapists or auricular detoxification specialists.
• Section 40-47-745. Unauthorized practice; penalty; cease and desist orders and injunctions; privileged communications.
• Section 40-47-750. Auricular therapy defined; supervision.
• Section 40-47-755. Auricular detoxification therapy defined; supervision.
• Section 40-47-760. Exempted activities.
• Section 40-47-765. Grounds for revocation, suspension, or denial of license.
• Section 40-47-770. Inspections.
• Section 40-47-775. Display of license.
• Section 40-47-780. Renewal of licenses.
• Section 40-47-785. Request for inactive status.
• Section 40-47-790. Licensee not to hold himself or herself out as authorized to practice medicine.
• Section 40-47-800. Licensing fees.
• Section 40-47-810. Third party reimbursement.

• Section 40-47-905. Short title.
• Section 40-47-910. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-915. Application of article.
• Section 40-47-920. Authority to employ staff.
• Section 40-47-925. Physician Assistant Committee; membership; term; filling vacancies; meetings; duty to receive and account for monies collected under article.
• Section 40-47-930. Powers and duties of committee and board.
• Section 40-47-935. Act and duties physician assistant authorized to perform; agency relationship to supervising physician.
• Section 40-47-938. Supervisory relationships.
• Section 40-47-940. Application for license; appearance before committee; temporary and permanent licenses.
• Section 40-47-945. Conditions for granting permanent license.
• Section 40-47-950. Limited physician assistant license; conditions for issuance; duration; responsibilities of supervising physician.
• Section 40-47-955. Scope of physician assistant's practice; physical presence requirements of supervising physician; practices in separate locations; granting of exceptions.
• Section 40-47-960. Scope of practice guidelines; signature and filing requirements; contents.
• Section 40-47-965. Requirements for writing prescriptions for drugs, controlled substances, and medical devices.
• Section 40-47-970. Limitations on permissible medical act, task, or function physician assistant may perform.
• Section 40-47-975, 40-47-980. Repealed by 2013 Act No. 28, Section 12, eff May 21, 2013.
• Section 40-47-985. Inspection of office or facility employing physician assistant.
• Section 40-47-990. Identification as physician assistant; badge size and content.
• Section 40-47-995. Termination of supervisory relationship; notice to board.
• Section 40-47-1000. Unlicensed person holding himself out as physician assistant; penalty; investigation; desist and refrain order; injunction; privileged communications; due process rights of respondent protected.
• Section 40-47-1005. Misconduct mandating revocation or denial of license.
• Section 40-47-1010. Renewal of license.
• Section 40-47-1015. Fees for licensure.
• Section 40-47-1020. Third party reimbursement to physician assistant.

• Section 40-47-1205. Short title.
• Section 40-47-1210. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-1215. Application of this article.
• Section 40-47-1220. Department of Labor staff.
• Section 40-47-1225. Anesthesiologist's Assistant Committee.
• Section 40-47-1230. Duties of Anesthesiologist's Assistant Committee.
• Section 40-47-1235. Functions and duties of anesthesiologist's assistants.
• Section 40-47-1240. Licensure of anesthesiologist's assistants.
• Section 40-47-1245. Sponsoring anesthesiologist; protocol delineating services provided by anesthesiologist's assistant.
• Section 40-47-1250. Supervision of anesthesiologist's assistants.
• Section 40-47-1255. Anesthesiologist's assistants to practice pursuant to written protocol.
• Section 40-47-1260. Limitations on practice of anesthesiologist's assistants.
• Section 40-47-1265. Inspections.
• Section 40-47-1270. Identification of anesthesiologist's assistants.
• Section 40-47-1275. Termination of sponsoring relationship between anesthesiologist and assistant.
• Section 40-47-1280. Violations of this article.
• Section 40-47-1285. Grounds for disciplinary action.
• Section 40-47-1290. License renewal.
• Section 40-47-1295. Maximum fees.
• Section 40-47-1300. Third party reimbursement.

Editor's Note
2005 Act No. 10, Section 6.A, provides:
"The General Assembly recognizes that the practice of cardiovascular invasive specialists is potentially harmful to the public in that the public does not have an adequate method to verify the qualifications of those persons who hold themselves out as qualified to practice."

• Section 40-47-1510. Citation of article.
• Section 40-47-1520. Definitions.
• Section 40-47-1530. Registration requirement.
• Section 40-47-1540. Application for registration.
• Section 40-47-1550. Renewal; lapse of registration.
• Section 40-47-1560. Authorized tasks and services; supervision by cardiologist; written protocols.
• Section 40-47-1570. Administration of registration program; registry maintenance and availability; promulgation of regulations.
• Section 40-47-1580. Investigations of unfitness to practice or unauthorized practice.
• Section 40-47-1590. Hearing before Administrative Law Court; grounds for revocation, suspension, or other discipline.
• Section 40-47-1600. Proscribed activities; identification badges and notification of involvement in cardiac care.
• Section 40-47-1610. Injunctions; fines; actions by unregistered persons.
• Section 40-47-1620. Promulgation of regulations.