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Licensing committee grants 20/80 waiver to allow Flowood physician to collaborate with Columbus psychiatric nurse practitioner
Summary
The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure executive committee granted a temporary waiver of the board's 20/80 collaborative practice-hour rule so Dr. Deborah Gross, based in Flowood, may formally collaborate with a part-time psychiatric nurse practitioner working in Columbus.
The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure's executive committee granted an exception to the board's 20/80 collaborative-practice rule for Dr. Deborah Gross, allowing her to serve as the collaborating physician for a part-time psychiatric nurse practitioner who will work two days a week in Columbus while Gross remains based in Flowood.
The waiver was discussed during a virtual executive committee meeting when Gross asked the panel to amend her original request for a 75-mile exception so it applied instead to the 20/80 rule. Board Secretary Dr. Givens reported after an executive-session review that the committee had met on the waiver and approved it. "The…
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