4730-1-04 Supervision.

(A) A physician assistant's practice shall be under the on-site supervision of the supervising physician in the following instances:

(1) For practice in a health care facility's emergency department when that is a routine practice location for the supervising physician and physician assistant;

(2) During the first five hundred hours of a physician assistant's provisional period of physician delegated prescriptive authority;

(3) When on-site supervision is specified as the supervision level in a special services plan or the policies of a health care facility; and

(4) When a supervising physician specifies that on-site supervision is required as a condition for the physician assistant's performance of one or more identified services in the supervisory plan, special services plan, or policies of a health care facility.

(B) A physician assistant's practice shall be under the direct supervision of the supervising physician in the following instances:

(1) When direct supervision is specified in a special services plan approved by the board; or

(2) When the supervising physician specifies that direct supervision is required as a condition for the physician assistant's performance of one or more identified services in a supervisory plan, special services plan, or the policies of a health care facility.

(C) Where paragraphs (A) and (B) of this rule do not apply, a physician assistant may practice under the off-site supervision of the supervising physician.

Effective: 10/31/2007
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/31/2012
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4730.07
Rule Amplifies: 4730.08, 4730.21, 4730.45