HB 1241-1_ Filed 02/12/2007, 18:11
Adopted 2/13/2007
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COMMITTEE REPORT
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NO:
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MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Public Health , to which was referred House Bill 1241 , has
had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
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Page 4, line 19, delete "licensure;" and insert " certification;".
Page 8, between lines 40 and 41, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 25-27.5-2-14; (07)AM124105.12. -->
"SECTION 12. IC 25-27.5-2-14 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2007]: Sec. 14.
(a) "Supervision"
means that the supervising physician or the physician designee
accepting responsibility for the physician assistant
must be meets
either
of the following conditions at all times that services are
rendered or tasks are performed by the physician assistant:
(1) The supervising physician or the physician designee is
physically present
or at the location at which services are
rendered or tasks are performed by the physician assistant.
(2) The supervising physician or the physician designee:
(A) is immediately available for consultation;
at all times that
services are rendered or tasks are performed by the physician
assistant. and
(B) is not more than:
(i) thirty (30) miles from the onsite location;
(ii) sixty (60) miles from the location of the rural health
clinic (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(1); or
(iii) a specific distance (as requested by the supervising
physician and physician assistant and approved by the
board) from the onsite location;
at which services are rendered or tasks are performed by
the physician assistant.
(b) The term includes the use of protocols, guidelines, and standing
orders developed or approved by the supervising physician.".
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Page 13, between lines 32 and 33, begin a new paragraph and insert:
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(e) A physician assistant may not prescribe drugs unless the
physician assistant has successfully completed at least thirty (30)
contact hours in pharmacology from an educational program that
is approved by the committee.
(f) A physician assistant may not prescribe, administer, or
monitor general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or deep
sedation/analgesia. A physician assistant may not administer
moderate sedation/analgesia during diagnostic tests, surgical
procedures, or obstetric procedures unless the following conditions
are met:
(1) A physician is physically present in the area, is
immediately available to assist in the management of the
patient, and is qualified to rescue patients from deep
sedation/analgesia.
(2) The physician assistant is qualified to rescue patients from
deep sedation/analgesia and is competent to manage a
compromised airway and provide adequate oxygenation and
ventilation by reason of meeting the following conditions:
(A) The physician assistant is certified in advanced
cardiopulmonary life support.
(B) The physician assistant has knowledge of and training
in the medications used in moderate sedation/analgesia,
including recommended doses, contraindications, and
adverse reactions.
(g) Before a physician assistant may prescribe drugs, the
physician assistant must have been continuously employed as a
physician assistant for not less than one (1) year after graduating
from a physician assistant program approved by the committee. To
be considered to have been continuously employed as a physician
assistant for a year for purposes of this subsection, a person must
have worked as a physician assistant more than one thousand eight
hundred (1,800) hours during the year.".
Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
(Reference is to HB 1241 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
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AM124105/DI 77 2007