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Senate approves limited repeal of corporate practice ban, creates licensure pathway for anesthesiologist assistants in small counties
Summary
Senate Bill 764 partially repeals the corporate practice of medicine in low-population counties to allow hospitals to employ certain specialists and establishes a licensed anesthesiologist assistant (AA) pathway with supervision rules; the committee passed the rewritten amendment and sent the bill to calendar with an 8–1 vote.
Senate Bill 764, carried by Sen. Bailey, as amended, partially repeals Tennessee’s corporate-practice-of-medicine restrictions to allow hospitals in counties below a population threshold to employ radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists and emergency physicians directly. The amended measure also creates an anesthesiologist assistant (AA) licensure pathway and practice requirements, including written supervision agreements and compliance with federal supervision ratios for medical direction.
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