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Committee defers SB 88 after debate over replacing PA supervision with collaboration model
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Senate Bill 88, which would replace physician supervision language with a collaboration framework for physician assistants, drew mixed testimony and was deferred for further review and additional testimony. Proponents said the change would reduce administrative barriers and help recruit and retain physician assistants; opponents, including the
Senate Bill 88, a proposal to modernize physician‑assistant practice language from a “supervision” model to a “collaboration” model, was deferred by the Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations on Feb. 18 after extended testimony and committee questions.
Sponsor Sen. Lindsey Tichenor opened by saying the bill “is just modernizing language from the role of a physician and a physician assistant from supervisory to collaborating” and described the definition of collaboration in the bill as consultation or referral based on patient…
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