No. CS/HB 683
Filed under Healthcare.
Performance of Physician Assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; Removes requirement that supervising physician notify DOH in writing of any delegation of prescribing authority to physician assistant; removes requirement that supervising physician's name be included in prescription issued by physician assistant; revises requirements for drug formulary for physician assistants; revises drug formulary requirements for advanced practice registered nurses authorized to prescribe medications; provides exception for psychiatric nurses.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDSupervising physicians no longer have to notify the Department of Health in writing before letting a physician assistant prescribe medication, or report later changes to that arrangement. Prescriptions written by assistants no longer need to list the supervisor's name.
Physician assistants may now prescribe up to a 30-day supply of Schedule II psychiatric medication to patients under 18, up from 14 days. They no longer need supervision from a pediatrician, family or internal medicine physician, or psychiatrist to do so.
Advanced practice registered nurses who are not psychiatric nurses may now prescribe psychiatric mental health controlled substances to patients under 18, capped at a 30-day supply, a route previously open only to psychiatric nurses. Psychiatric nurses remain exempt from that cap.
AIA supervising physician no longer has to notify the Department of Health, in writing on a department-approved form, before delegating prescribing authority to a physician assistant, or report later changes to the assistant's prescriptive privileges.
AIPhysician assistants may prescribe a 30-day supply of Schedule II psychiatric mental health medication to a patient under 18, up from 14 days, and no longer need supervision specifically by a pediatrician, family or internal medicine physician, or psychiatrist to do so.
AIAdvanced practice registered nurses who are not psychiatric nurses may now prescribe psychiatric mental health controlled substances to a patient under 18, capped at a 30-day supply -- a route the current formulary reserves for psychiatric nurses alone.
AIA physician assistant's prescription must still show the assistant's own name, address, and telephone number, but no longer has to list the name of the physician supervising them.