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UNOFFICIAL 1737-7 (1) Hospital visits to a patient in an institution for tuberculosis, Hansen's disease, or mental disease; and (2) Professional services rendered to an inmate of a public institution, including visits to
a hospital where the inmate is confined temporarily. [Eff 08/01/94 ] (Auth: HRS §346-14) (Imp: 42 C.F.R. §§440.50, 441.13)
§17-1737-5.1 Physician assistant services. (a) A physician assistant is an individual who is an employee of a supervising physician and has been certified by the board of medical examiners, State of Hawaii, with the department of commerce and consumer affairs, to practice medicine under a physician supervision. The supervising physician must be a Hawaii Medicaid provider.
(b)Physician assistant services can only be provided to…#
(b) Physician assistant services can only be provided to patients who have established a physician patient relationship with the supervising physician. The physician assistant shall only render services that are in the physician assistant’s scope of practice in the State of Hawaii.
(c)Physician supervision:#
(c) Physician supervision:
(1) Means overseeing the activities of, an
accepting responsibility for, the medical
services rendered by a physician assistant.
The supervising physician also is responsible
for assuring that the physician assistant’s
services are medically appropriate for the
patient. (2) Supervision may be direct. Direct supervision shall require the physical presence of the supervising physician to be at the same location the services are rendered and only for those services the supervising physician is authorized to provide that are within the scope of practice of a physician assistant. (3) If supervision by the physician is other than direct, the physician must be in the State of Hawaii and available at all times by two way radio, telephone, fax machine, modem, or other telecommunication devices. The physician assistant’s progress note must indicate that the physician was not physically present. The physician must review the progress note written by the