Ohio Code 4730.44 – Exercise of authority under on-site supervision
(A) As used in this section:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4730.44
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Health care facility: means any of the following:
(1) A hospital registered with the department of health under section 3701. See Ohio Code 4730.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Physician: means an individual who is authorized under Chapter 4731 of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery. See Ohio Code 4730.01
- Physician assistant: means an individual who is licensed under Chapter 4730 of the Revised Code to provide services as a physician assistant to patients under the supervision, control, and direction of one or more physicians. See Ohio Code 1.64
- Service: means a medical activity that requires training in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disease. See Ohio Code 4730.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) “Military” means the armed forces of the United States or the national guard of any state, including any health care facility or clinic operated by the United States department of veterans affairs.
(2) “Public health service” means the United States public health service commissioned corps.
(B) During the first five hundred hours of a physician assistant’s exercise of physician-delegated prescriptive authority, the physician assistant shall exercise that authority only under the on-site supervision of a supervising physician. This requirement is met by a physician assistant practicing in the military or the public health service if the supervision is provided by a person licensed, or otherwise authorized, by any jurisdiction to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(C) A physician assistant shall be excused from the requirement established in division (B) of this section if either of the following is the case:
(1) Prior to application under section 4730.10 of the Revised Code, the physician assistant held a prescriber number, or the equivalent, from another jurisdiction and practiced with prescriptive authority in that jurisdiction for not less than one thousand hours.
(2) Prior to application under section 4730.10 of the Revised Code, the physician assistant practiced with prescriptive authority in the military or public health service for not less than one thousand hours.
(D) A record of a physician assistant’s completion of the hours required by division (B) of this section, issuance of a prescriber number or equivalent by another jurisdiction, or practice in the military or public health service shall be kept in the records maintained by a supervising physician of the physician assistant. The record shall be made available for inspection by the board.