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Senate committee approves Board of Medicine rule rewrite; removes NCCPA reference from PA rule after objection
Summary
The committee approved consolidation and modernization of Board of Medicine rules and, following a motion from a senator, removed an explicit reference to the NCCPA exam in the physician assistant licensure rule.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to approve a consolidated and reorganized set of rules for the Idaho State Board of Medicine and related chapters, and it approved changes to physician assistant licensure rules after a contested floor amendment.
Nikki Chopsky, bureau chief of health professions and executive officer for the Idaho Board of Medicine, told the committee the board combined two rule chapters into one to simplify licensure and practice rules, reorganized definitions and practice standards, and moved fee tables and disciplinary language for clarity. The pending chapters were dockets 24-3301-2401 and 24-3303-2401 (the latter proposed for repeal because its content was incorporated).
Committee members questioned…
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