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| 1 | AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 95/7) (from Ch. 111, par. 4607)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
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| 8 | Sec. 7. Supervision requirements. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) No more than 2 physician
assistants shall be supervised
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| 10 | by
the supervising physician, although a physician assistant | ||||||
| 11 | shall be able to
hold more than one professional position. Each | ||||||
| 12 | supervising physician shall
file a notice of supervision of | ||||||
| 13 | such physician assistant according to the
rules of the | ||||||
| 14 | Department. However, the alternate supervising physician may
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| 15 | supervise more than 2 physician assistants when
the supervising
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| 16 | physician
is unable to provide such supervision consistent with | ||||||
| 17 | the definition of
alternate physician in Section 4. It is the | ||||||
| 18 | responsibility of the supervising physician to maintain | ||||||
| 19 | documentation each time he or she has designated an alternative | ||||||
| 20 | supervising physician. This documentation shall include the | ||||||
| 21 | date alternate supervisory control began, the date alternate | ||||||
| 22 | supervisory control ended, and any other changes. A supervising | ||||||
| 23 | physician shall provide a copy of this documentation to the | ||||||
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| 1 | Department, upon request.
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| 2 | Physician assistants shall be supervised only by | ||||||
| 3 | physicians as defined in
this Act
who are engaged in clinical | ||||||
| 4 | practice, or in clinical practice in
public health or other | ||||||
| 5 | community health facilities.
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| 6 | Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the | ||||||
| 7 | delegation of tasks or
duties by a physician to a nurse or | ||||||
| 8 | other appropriately trained personnel.
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| 9 | Nothing in this Act
shall be construed to prohibit the | ||||||
| 10 | employment of physician assistants by
a hospital, nursing home | ||||||
| 11 | or other health care facility where such physician
assistants | ||||||
| 12 | function under the supervision of a supervising physician.
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| 13 | Physician assistants may be employed by the Department of | ||||||
| 14 | Corrections or
the Department of Human Services (as successor | ||||||
| 15 | to the Department of Mental
Health and Developmental | ||||||
| 16 | Disabilities) for service in
facilities maintained by such | ||||||
| 17 | Departments and affiliated training
facilities in programs | ||||||
| 18 | conducted under the authority of the Director of
Corrections or | ||||||
| 19 | the Secretary of Human Services. Each physician assistant
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| 20 | employed by the Department of Corrections or the Department of | ||||||
| 21 | Human Services
(as successor to the Department of Mental Health | ||||||
| 22 | and
Developmental Disabilities) shall be under the supervision | ||||||
| 23 | of a physician
engaged in clinical practice and direct patient | ||||||
| 24 | care. Duties of each
physician assistant employed by such | ||||||
| 25 | Departments are limited to those
within the scope of practice | ||||||
| 26 | of the supervising physician who is fully
responsible for all | ||||||
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| 1 | physician assistant activities.
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| 2 | A physician assistant may be employed by a practice group | ||||||
| 3 | or other entity
employing multiple physicians at one or more | ||||||
| 4 | locations. In that case, one of
the
physicians practicing at a | ||||||
| 5 | location shall be designated the supervising
physician. The | ||||||
| 6 | other physicians with that practice group or other entity who
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| 7 | practice in the same general type of practice or specialty
as | ||||||
| 8 | the supervising physician may supervise the physician | ||||||
| 9 | assistant with respect
to their patients without being deemed | ||||||
| 10 | alternate supervising physicians for the
purpose of this Act.
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| 11 | (b) A physician assistant licensed in this State, or | ||||||
| 12 | licensed or authorized to practice in any other U.S. | ||||||
| 13 | jurisdiction or credentialed by his or her federal employer as | ||||||
| 14 | a physician assistant, who is responding to a need for medical | ||||||
| 15 | care created by an emergency or by a state or local disaster | ||||||
| 16 | may render such care that the physician assistant is able to | ||||||
| 17 | provide without supervision as it is defined in this Section or | ||||||
| 18 | with such supervision as is available.
For purposes of this | ||||||
| 19 | Section, an "emergency situation" shall not include one that | ||||||
| 20 | occurs in the place of one's employment. | ||||||
| 21 | Any physician who supervises a physician assistant | ||||||
| 22 | providing medical care in response to such an emergency or | ||||||
| 23 | state or local disaster shall not be required to meet the | ||||||
| 24 | requirements set forth in this Section for a supervising | ||||||
| 25 | physician. | ||||||
| 26 | (Source: P.A. 95-703, eff. 12-31-07.)
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| 1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 2 | becoming law.
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