§ 1772 Prohibited acts by a physician assistant.

24 DE Code § 1772 (2019) (N/A)

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(a) A physician assistant may not maintain or manage an office separate and apart from the office of the physician assistant’s supervising physician.

(b) A physician assistant may not engage in diagnosis, prescribe or dispense legend drugs or therapeutics, or practice medicine or surgery or perform refractions in any setting independent of the supervision of a physician who is certified to practice medicine.

(c) A physician assistant may not assign a delegated medical act to another individual without the supervising physician’s authorization.

(d) A physician assistant may not independently bill a patient for services rendered at the request of the supervising physician.

(e) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to authorize a physician assistant to practice independent of a supervising physician.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in a medical emergency, a physician assistant may not perform any medical act which has not been delegated by a supervising physician.

(g) A physician assistant may not practice as a member of any other health profession regulated under this code unless the physician assistant is certified, licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized to practice the other profession.

75 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 387, § 2.

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