obtain an approved job description from the Board of Physician Quality
Assurance in order to perform certain delegated medical acts; substituting
provisions that authorize a physician to delegate certain medical acts to a
physician assistant under a delegation agreement that has been approved by the
Board of Physician Quality Assurance; specifying the contents of a delegation
agreement and procedures for review, approval, disapproval, and modification of
a delegation agreement; authorizing a physician to delegate authority to a
physician assistant to write medication orders under an approved delegation
agreement under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board to adopt certain
regulations; prohibiting a certain physician assistant from writing medication
orders for certain controlled dangerous substances unless the physician
assistant has certain valid registrations; prohibiting a supervising physician
from delegating the prescribing and administering of controlled dangerous
substances, prescription drugs, or medical devices unless certain information is
included in the delegation agreement and certain other requirements are met;
prohibiting a physician from delegating to a physician assistant the prescribing
of certain controlled dangerous substances; providing that a physician assistant
is the agent of the supervising physician in the performance of certain
practice-related activities; requiring the Board of Physician Quality Assurance
to provide a certain list to the Board of Pharmacy; requiring a supervising
physician to provide certain notice to the Board of Physician Quality Assurance
when the supervising physician restricts or removes a delegation to write
medical orders or to prescribe controlled dangerous substances, prescription
drugs, or medical devices; requiring the Board of Physician Quality Assurance to
require a certain continuing education course; requiring the Board of Physician
Quality Assurance to include certain information in its annual report; defining
certain terms; and generally relating to health occupations, physician
assistants, and the authority of physicians to delegate prescriptive authority to
physician assistants.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health Occupations

Section 15-101 and 15-301, 15-301, and 15-307(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article - Health Occupations

Section 15-302

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 15-302 and 15-302.1 through 15-302.3

Annotated Code of Maryland