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2018 Georgia Code 43-34-102 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 43-34-102 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 43-34-102

TITLE 43 PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES

Section 34. Physicians, Acupuncture, Physician Assistants, Cancer and Glaucoma Treatment, Respiratory Care, Clinical Perfusionists, and Orthotics and Prosthetics Practice, 43-34-1 through 43-34-290.

ARTICLE 4 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

43-34-102. Definitions.

As used in this article, the term:

  1. "Applicant" means an individual seeking licensure as a physician assistant pursuant to this article.
  2. "Alternate supervising physician" means a physician to whom a board approved primary supervising physician has delegated the responsibility of supervising a physician assistant who is licensed to that primary supervising physician and who agrees to supervise the physician assistant for the primary supervising physician and who is on record with the board.
  3. "Board" means the Georgia Composite Medical Board.
  4. "Job description" means a document, signed by the primary supervising physician and the physician assistant, in which the primary supervising physician delegates to that physician assistant authority to perform certain medical acts and which describes the professional background and specialty of the primary supervising physician and the qualifications including related experience of the physician assistant; and includes a general description of how the physician assistant will be utilized in the practice. A job description shall not be required to contain every activity the physician deems the physician assistant qualified to perform but shall confine the activities of the physician assistant to those in the scope of practice of the primary supervising physician.
  5. "Order" means to prescribe pursuant to a job description which drug, medical device, medical treatment, or diagnostic study is appropriate for a patient and to communicate the same in writing, orally, via facsimile, or electronically.
  6. "Physician" means a person lawfully licensed in this state to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter.
  7. "Physician assistant" means a skilled person who is licensed to a supervising physician and who is qualified by academic and practical training to provide patients' services not necessarily within the physical presence but under the personal direction or supervision of the supervising physician.
  8. "Prescription drug order" means a written or oral order of a physician assistant for a drug or medical device for a specific patient. Such term includes an electronic visual image prescription drug order and an electronic data prescription drug order.
  9. "Primary supervising physician" means the physician to whom the board licenses a physician assistant pursuant to a board approved job description and who has the primary responsibility for supervising the practice of a physician assistant pursuant to that physician assistant's job description.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 676, § 3; Ga. L. 1995, p. 827, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1043, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 581, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.)

Law reviews.

- For note on 1995 amendments of this Code section and § 43-34-103, see 12 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 301 (1995).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Central Anesthesia Assocs. v. Worthy, 254 Ga. 728, 333 S.E.2d 829 (1985); Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C. v. Gillis, 272 Ga. 404, 528 S.E.2d 785 (2000).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 43-34-102

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Cent. Anesthesia Assocs., P.C. v. Worthy, 333 S.E.2d 829 (Ga. 1985).

Cited 46 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 4, 1985 | 254 Ga. 728

..." (Emphasis supplied.) Without determining the validity of this rule, it is clear that it requires "direct supervision" by an anesthesiologist or a CRNA and no such "direct supervision" was provided here. Thus this rule cannot justify violation of the statute. CAA also contends that OCGA §§ 43-34-102 (4) and 43-34-103 (d), defining and setting out the duties of a physician's assistant, show that CAA met the supervision requirement. OCGA § 43-34-102 (4) provides: "`Physician's assistant' means a skilled person qualified by academic and practical training to provide patients' services not necessarily within the physical presence but under the personal direction or supervision of the...
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Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C. v. Gillis, 528 S.E.2d 785 (Ga. 2000).

Cited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 1, 2000 | 272 Ga. 404, 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 1618

...ith the patient's health and welfare." OCGA § 43-34-101(b). Under this Act, a physician's assistant ("PA") may be licensed to perform patients' services for which the PA has been found qualified to perform by academic and practical training. OCGA §§ 43-34-102(5), 43-34-103(a)....
...at (2)(B), and ascertain that the agencies possess appropriate personnel, equipment, and health care expertise to enable the agencies "to make an objective appraisal, in a manner prescribed by the board, of the proposed [PA's] qualifications," OCGA § 43-34-102(3); to approve or disapprove a proposed PA's application and issue licenses authorizing a PA to perform medical tasks under the direction and supervision of the utilizing physician, with the strict statutory mandate to not approve an app...
...nguage as a rejection of a PA's authority to perform a supervisory medical task outside the physical presence but under the personal direction or supervision of the utilizing physician when the task is contained within the PA's job description. OCGA § 43-34-102(5).
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Carole Maso v. Brian Zeh, 317 Ga. 769 (Ga. 2023).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 7, 2023

...Under the Act, the “physician who will be responsible for the per- formance of such physician assistant” submits an application to the Georgia Composite Medical Board that describes the work a licensed physician assis- tant will do within the scope of the supervising physician’s practice. OCGA §§ 43-34-102 (4); 43-34-103 (a) (2)....
...If approved, the board issues the physician assistant a “license authorizing the assistant to perform medical tasks under the direction and supervision of the physician.” OCGA § 43-34-104 (a). 2 act for him or subsequently ratifies the acts of another in his behalf”) with OCGA §§ 43-34-102 (7) (a physician assistant is “qualified . . . to provide patients’ services not necessarily within the physical pres- ence but under the personal direction or supervision of the supervis- ing physician”); 43-34-102 (4) (limiting a physician assistant’s duties to the “scope of practice of the primary supervising physician”); 43- 34-105 (“[A] physician assistant, under the direction of the applying physician, may perform the tasks described i...
...principal- agent relationship under the right circumstances, making that case seems more straightforward in the context of the formal relationship created under the PAA between a primary supervising physician and the physician assistant. See OCGA §§ 43-34-102 (9) (“‘Primary supervising physician’ means the phy- sician to whom the board licenses a physician assistant pursuant to a board approved job description and who has the primary responsibility for supervis- ing the practice of a ph...

Carole Maso v. Brian Zeh (Ga. 2023).

Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 7, 2023

...ent relationship. 2 Com- pare OCGA § 10-6-1 (an agent-principal relationship “arises when- ever one person, expressly or by implication, authorizes another to act for him or subsequently ratifies the acts of another in his behalf”) with id. § 43-34-102 (7) (a physician assistant is “qualified…to pro- vide patients’ services not necessarily within the physical presence but under the personal direction or supervision of the supervising physician”); id. § 43-34-102 (4) (limiting a physician assistant’s du- ties to the “scope of practice of the primary supervising physician”); 1 This language has remained largely unaltered since first introduced. See, e.g., Civil Code of 1895, § 290...
...Under the Act, the “physician who will be responsible for the per- formance of such physician assistant” submits an application to the Georgia Composite Medical Board that describes the work a licensed physician assis- tant will do within the scope of the supervising physician’s practice. OCGA §§ 43-34-102 (4); 43-34-103 (a) (2)....
...a principal- agent relationship under the right circumstances, making that case seems more straightforward in the context of the formal relationship created under the PAA between a primary supervising physician and the physician assistant. See OCGA § 43-34-102 (9) (“‘Primary supervising physician’ means the physi- cian to whom the board licenses a physician assistant pursuant to a board ap- proved job description and who has the primary responsibility for supervising the practice of a ph...