148C.8 Right to delegate.
Nothing in this chapter affects or limits a physician’s existing right to delegate various medical tasks to aides, assistants or others acting under the physician’s supervision or direction, including orthopedic physician assistant technologists. Such aides, assistants, orthopedic physician assistant technologists, and others who perform only those tasks which can be so delegated shall not be required to qualify as physician assistants under this chapter.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, §148B.8; C81, §148C.8]
88 Acts, ch 1225, §22; 2015 Acts, ch 29, §114
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 148C - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Section 148C.2 - Approved programs.
Section 148C.4 - Services performed by physician assistants.
Section 148C.5 - Supervising physicians — board of medicine — rulemaking requirements.
Section 148C.5A - Initiating disciplinary proceedings — advice from board of medical examiners.
Section 148C.8 - Right to delegate.
Section 148C.9 - Eye examination restricted.
Section 148C.10 - Applicability of other provisions of law.
Section 148C.11 - Prohibition — crime.