Section 4730.44. Exercise of authority under on-site supervision

(A) 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.

(B) A physician assistant shall be excused from the requirement established in division (A) of this section if 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.

(C) A record of a physician assistant's completion of the hours required by division (A) of this section or issuance of a prescriber number or equivalent by another jurisdiction 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.

Added by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §1, eff. 10/15/2015.