Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4730 - Physician Assistants

• Section 4730.01 - Physician Assistant Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Physician" means an individual who is authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and...
• Section 4730.02 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall hold that person out as being able to function as a physician assistant, or use any words or letters indicating...
• Section 4730.021 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4730.05.
  Effective Date: 03-05-1996
• Section 4730.03 - Construction And Application.
  Nothing in this chapter shall: (A) Be construed to affect or interfere with the performance of duties of any medical personnel who are either...
• Section 4730.04 - Disaster Or Emergency Medical Care.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Disaster" means any imminent threat or actual occurrence of widespread or severe damage to or loss of...
• Section 4730.05 - Physician Assistant Policy Committee.
  (A) There is hereby created the physician assistant policy committee of the state medical board. The president of the board shall appoint the members...
• Section 4730.06 - Recommendations To State Medical Board.
  (A) The physician assistant policy committee of the state medical board shall review, and shall submit to the board recommendations concerning, all of the...
• Section 4730.07 - Adoption Of Additional Rules.
  In addition to rules that are specifically required or authorized by this chapter to be adopted, the state medical board may, subject to division...
• Section 4730.08 - Certificate To Practice As Physician Assistant.
  (A) A license to practice as a physician assistant issued under this chapter authorizes the holder to practice as a physician assistant as follows:...
• Section 4730.081 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.09 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. 61, HB 139, §1,...
• Section 4730.091 - [Renumbered].
  Renumbered as § 4730.201 by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §1, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.092 - [Renumbered].
  Renumbered as § 4730.202 by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §1, eff. 10/15/2015. Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.161, HB 284,...
• Section 4730.093 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 276, §2, eff. 3/19/2015. Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 394, §2,...
• Section 4730.10 - Applying For Certificate Of Registration.
  (A) An individual seeking a license to practice as a physician assistant shall file with the state medical board a written application on a...
• Section 4730.101 - Certificate Applicant To Comply With Rc Chapter 4776.
  In addition to any other eligibility requirement set forth in this chapter, each applicant for a license to practice as a physician assistant shall...
• Section 4730.11 - Eligibility Requirements For Physician Assistant Certificate.
  (A) To be eligible to receive a license to practice as a physician assistant, all of the following apply to an applicant: (1) The...
• Section 4730.111 - .
  A physician assistant whose certification by the national commission on certification of physician assistants or a successor organization recognized by the state medical board...
• Section 4730.12 - Issuing Certificate Of Registration.
  (A) The state medical board shall review each application received under section 4730.10 of the Revised Code for a license to practice as a...
• Section 4730.13 - Duplicate Physician Assistant Certificate - Fee.
  Upon application by the holder of a license to practice as a physician assistant, the state medical board shall issue a duplicate license to...
• Section 4730.14 - Renewing Certificate Of Registration.
  (A) A license to practice as a physician assistant shall expire biennially and may be renewed in accordance with this section. A person seeking...
• Section 4730.15 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.16 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 03-05-1996; 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.17 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.18 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.19 - Supervision Agreement Approval Procedure.
  (A) Before initiating supervision of one or more physician assistants licensed under this chapter, a physician shall enter into a supervision agreement with each...
• Section 4730.20 - [Repealed Effective 10/15/2015] Expiration And Renewal Of Supervision Agreement.
  (A) The state medical board's approval of a supervision agreement expires on the thirty-first day of January of each odd-numbered year and may be...
• Section 4730.20 - Services Performed By Physician Assistant.
  (A) A physician assistant licensed under this chapter may perform any of the following services authorized by the supervising physician that are part of...
• Section 4730.201 - Administration Of Local Anesthesia By Physician Assistant.
  (A) As used in this section, "local anesthesia" means the injection of a drug or combination of drugs to stop or prevent a painful...
• Section 4730.202 - Determination Of Death By Physician Assistant.
  (A) A physician assistant may determine and pronounce an individual's death, but only if the individual's respiratory and circulatory functions are not being artificially...
• Section 4730.203 - Delegation Of Administration Of Drug.
  (A) Acting pursuant to a supervision agreement, a physician assistant may delegate performance of a task to implement a patient's plan of care or,...
• Section 4730.21 - Duties Of Supervising Physician.
  (A) The supervising physician of a physician assistant exercises supervision, control, and direction of the physician assistant. A physician assistant may practice in any...
• Section 4730.22 - Liability Of Physician - Duties Of Health Care Facility - Individual Liability.
  (A) When performing authorized services, a physician assistant acts as the agent of the physician assistant's supervising physician. The supervising physician is legally responsible...
• Section 4730.25 - Disciplinary Actions.
  (A) The state medical board, by an affirmative vote of not fewer than six members, may revoke or may refuse to grant a license...
• Section 4730.251 - Effect Of Child Support Default On Certificate.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state medical board shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50...
• Section 4730.252 - Violation; Civil Penalties.
  (A) (1) If a physician assistant violates any section of this chapter other than section 4730.14 of the Revised Code or violates any rule...
• Section 4730.26 - Hearings And Investigations.
  (A) The state medical board shall investigate evidence that appears to show that any person has violated this chapter or a rule adopted under...
• Section 4730.27 - Adjudication Of Mental Competency.
  If the state medical board has reason to believe that any person who has been granted a license under this chapter to practice as...
• Section 4730.28 - Applying For Reinstatement.
  (A) An individual whose license to practice as a physician assistant issued under this chapter has been suspended or is in an inactive state...
• Section 4730.31 - Reporting Conviction To Medical Board.
  (A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding...
• Section 4730.32 - Reporting Disciplinary Proceedings.
  (A) Within sixty days after the imposition of any formal disciplinary action taken by a health care facility against any individual holding a valid...
• Section 4730.33 - Secretary Of State Medical Board - Duties - Prosecutions.
  The secretary of the state medical board shall enforce the laws relating to the practice of physician assistants. If the secretary has knowledge or...
• Section 4730.34 - State Medical Board - Immunity.
  In the absence of fraud or bad faith, the state medical board, the board's physician assistant policy committee, a current or former board or...
• Section 4730.38 - Recommendations For Physician-delegated Prescriptive Authority.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the physician assistant policy committee of the state medical board shall, at such times...
• Section 4730.39 - Rules Governing Physician-delegated Prescriptive Authority.
  (A) The state medical board shall do all of the following: (1) Adopt a formulary listing the drugs and therapeutic devices by class and...
• Section 4730.40 - Physician-delegated Prescriptive Authority Formulary.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the physician assistant formulary adopted by the state medical board under section 4730.39 of the Revised...
• Section 4730.401 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.161, HB 284, §2, eff. 3/22/2013. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.41 - Physician Assistant's Authority Under Certificate To Prescribe.
  (A) A physician assistant who holds a valid prescriber number issued by the state medical board is authorized to prescribe and personally furnish drugs...
• Section 4730.411 - Prescription Of Schedule II Controlled Substance By Physician Assistant.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, a physician assistant may prescribe to a patient a schedule II controlled...
• Section 4730.42 - Supervising Physician's Delegation Authority - Limitations.
  (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...
• Section 4730.43 - Samples Provided By Physician Assistant.
  (A) A physician assistant who holds a valid prescriber number issued by the state medical board and has been granted physician-delegated prescriptive authority may...
• Section 4730.431 - Authority To Supply Naloxone.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or rule adopted by the state medical board, a physician assistant who holds a valid prescriber number...
• Section 4730.44 - [Repealed Effective 10/15/2015] Application For Certificate To Prescribe.
  (A) A physician assistant seeking a certificate to prescribe shall submit to the state medical board a written application on a form prescribed and...
• 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...
• Section 4730.45 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.46 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.161, HB 284, §1, eff. 3/22/2013....
• Section 4730.47 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.48 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 276, §1,...
• Section 4730.49 - Continuing Education Required For Renewal Of Certificate.
  (A) To be eligible for renewal of a license to practice as a physician assistant, an applicant who has been granted physician-delegated prescriptive authority...
• Section 4730.50 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.51 - Information Required On Internet Information Board.
  In the information the board maintains on its internet web site, the state medical board shall include the following: (A) The name of each...
• Section 4730.52 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 110, §2, eff. 10/15/2015. Effective Date: 05-17-2006
• Section 4730.53 - Conditions For Prescribing Opioid Analgesic Or Benzodiazepine Drugs; Adoption Of Rules Regarding Review Of Drug Database.
  (A) As used in this section, "drug database" means the database established and maintained by the state board of pharmacy pursuant to section 4729.75...
• Section 4730.54 - Compliance With Law Regarding Sanctions For Human Trafficking.
  The state medical board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code. Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.169, HB 247, §1, eff. 3/22/2013.
• Section 4730.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4730.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense; on each...

Last modified: October 10, 2016