Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary Present law provides for the employment of certified medical assistants, which are personnel with training to function in an assistive role to a licensed physician or licensed nurse in the provision of patient care activities in a facility used as an ambulatory outpatient hospital clinic as delegated by the physician or licensed nurse. This bill adds authorization for a physician assistant to delegate tasks to a certified medical assistant in accordance with the rules adopted by the board of physician assistants and as long as the physician assistant is in collaboration with a licensed physician. A physician assistant shall not delegate any patient care activity that requires the exercise of physician assistant's judgment in assessing, planning, or altering care based on the needs of the individual patient. Under present law, one of the requirements for employment as a certified medical assistant within an ambulatory outpatient hospital clinic is that the person is certified by one of five listed organizations. This bill clarifies that the person may be certified or registered by one of the five recognized certifying organizations. Present law requires that an ambulatory outpatient hospital clinic is responsible for training and verifying competence of certified medical assistants. This bill adds that such responsibility includes ensuring additional training and validation to administer medications, if necessary. Present law lists 11 categories of medications that a certified medical assistant may administer or prepare pursuant to an order from an authorized healthcare provider. This bill limits the dosages that a certified medical assistant may administer to: (1) A single dose, appropriately labelled, ready-to-administer packaging; or (2) A multi-dose, appro
