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House passes amended advance health-care directive bill clarifying physician assistant role
Summary
Lawmakers approved a House amendment to first-substitute SB117 to clarify that physician assistants may participate in implementing advanced health-care directives only under a delegation-of-service agreement with an attending physician and removed psychologists from the bill; the measure passed 42-28.
The Utah House approved a revised version of first-substitute Senate Bill 117 on Feb. 17 after floor amendments clarified the professional roles involved in advanced health-care directives.
Representative Paul Mascaro (sponsor) explained that the amendment removes psychologists from the list of professionals who could express advanced health-care directives and explicitly states that physician assistants may participate only under a…
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