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State implementer bill adds physician assistants to MOLST eligibility, council told
Summary
Advisory council members were told SB1 (implementer bill) included a digital-first MOLST update and statutory language allowing physician assistants to determine MOLST eligibility; DPH staff said policy, form and training updates will follow and that final statutory text will be circulated.
Barbara Cass, senior advisor to Commissioner Jatani for long-term care, told the MOLST Advisory Council that legislation to support a digital-first MOLST form passed as part of the governor's implementer bill and that the language explicitly allows physician assistants to determine whether an individual meets MOLST eligibility criteria. "PAs are essential and critical to the palliative care end-of-life care team," Cass said.
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