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House panel considers adding physician assistants to hospital 'attending' rights as board warns of safety risk
Summary
Legislative counsel outlined an amendment to add physician assistants to the patient 'attending' designation and hospital licensure language; the Board of Medical Practice issued a statement opposing transitioning inpatient attending coverage to advanced practice providers without minimum inpatient experience requirements.
Legislative counsel Jen Carvey walked the House Healthcare Committee through a strike‑all amendment to S3 on Thursday that would insert the term “physician assistant” alongside physicians and advanced practice registered nurses in the patient bill of rights and hospital license requirements.
The proposed language would let a patient’s attending be a physician, physician assistant or APRN, require the attending to coordinate care and to sign professional case records, and make physician assistants subject to disciplinary action under the same complaint…
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