Nebraska Statutes 38-2050. Physician assistants; supervision; supervising physician; requirements; collaborative agreement
(1) To be a supervising physician, a person shall:
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 38-2050
- Board: means the Board of Medicine and Surgery. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2010
- Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Physician assistant: means any person who graduates from an approved program, who has passed a proficiency examination, and who the department, with the recommendation of the board, approves to perform medical services under a collaborative agreement with the supervision of a physician or under a collaborative agreement with the supervision of a podiatrist as provided by section Nebraska Statutes 38-2014
- Supervising physician: means a licensed physician who supervises a physician assistant under a collaborative agreement. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2017
- Supervision: means the ready availability of the supervising physician for consultation and collaboration on the activities of the physician assistant. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2018
(a) Be licensed to practice medicine and surgery under the Uniform Credentialing Act;
(b) Have no restriction imposed by the board on his or her ability to supervise or collaborate with a physician assistant; and
(c) Be a party to a collaborative agreement with the physician assistant.
(2) The supervising physician shall keep the collaborative agreement on file at his or her primary practice site, shall keep a copy of the collaborative agreement on file at each practice site where the physician assistant provides medical services, and shall make the collaborative agreement available to the board and the department upon request.
(3) Supervision of a physician assistant by a supervising physician shall be continuous but shall not require the physical presence of the supervising physician at the time and place that the services are rendered. A physician assistant may render services in a setting that is geographically remote from the supervising physician.
(4) A supervising physician may supervise no more than four physician assistants at any one time. The board may consider an application for waiver of this limit and may waive the limit upon a showing that the supervising physician meets the minimum requirements for the waiver. The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations establishing minimum requirements for such waivers.