Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 4730 | Physician Assistants
Section 4730.42 | Supervising Physician's Delegation Authority - Limitations.

Effective: March 20, 2019
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 259 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) In granting physician-delegated prescriptive authority to a particular physician assistant who holds a valid prescriber number issued by the state medical board, the supervising physician is subject to all of the following:
(1) The supervising physician shall not grant physician-delegated prescriptive authority for any drug or device that may be used to perform or induce an abortion.
(2) The supervising physician shall not grant physician-delegated prescriptive authority in a manner that exceeds the supervising physician's prescriptive authority, including the physician's authority to treat chronic pain with controlled substances and products containing tramadol as described in section 4731.052 of the Revised Code.
(3) The supervising physician shall supervise the physician assistant in accordance with both of the following:
(a) The supervision requirements specified in section 4730.21 of the Revised Code;
(b) The supervision agreement entered into with the physician assistant under section 4730.19 of the Revised Code, including, if applicable, the policies of the health care facility in which the physician and physician assistant are practicing.
(B)(1) The supervising physician of a physician assistant may place conditions on the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to the physician assistant. If conditions are placed on that authority, the supervising physician shall maintain a written record of the conditions and make the record available to the state medical board on request.
(2) The conditions that a supervising physician may place on the physician-delegated prescriptive authority granted to a physician assistant include the following:
(a) Identification by class and specific generic nomenclature of drugs and therapeutic devices that the physician chooses not to permit the physician assistant to prescribe;
(b) Limitations on the dosage units or refills that the physician assistant is authorized to prescribe;
(c) Specification of circumstances under which the physician assistant is required to refer patients to the supervising physician or another physician when exercising physician-delegated prescriptive authority;
(d) Responsibilities to be fulfilled by the physician in supervising the physician assistant that are not otherwise specified in the supervision agreement or otherwise required by this chapter.

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