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Ohio sponsors tell Health Committee a title change for physician assistants won’t alter practice
Summary
Sponsors told the House Health Committee that a bill to replace the term “physician assistant” with “physician associate” merely changes language in code (about 600 occurrences) and does not expand scope of practice; members raised concerns about patient confusion and recruitment benefits.
Representatives Lampton and Manning presented House Bill 353 at a first hearing before the Ohio House Health Committee, saying the proposal would replace the statutory term “physician assistant” with “physician associate” across state code but would not change clinicians’ scope of practice.
Representative Lampton, sponsor, told the committee the draft runs just under 500 pages because the title appears roughly 600 times in law. “There are no scope of practice changes in this bill,”…
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