Section 1350.110  Employment by a Professional Corporation or Partnership

a)         Whenever a physician assistant is employed by a collaborating physician who is a member of a professional corporation or partnership or whenever the collaborating physician or the physician assistant is an employee of a professional corporation or partnership, the collaborating physician shall maintain the responsibility for the physician assistant and for the care and treatment of the persons attended by the physician assistant. Responsibility for the physician assistant cannot be transferred to such corporation or partnership.

b)          Whenever a physician assistant is employed by a practice group or other entity that employs multiple physicians, one physician at that location shall be designated as the collaborating physician.  A physician assistant may collaborate with another physician at the practice group who practices in the same general type of practice or specialty as the physician assistant's collaborating physician.

(Source:  Amended at 44 Ill. Reg. 2519, effective January 31, 2020)