Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLV - Medical Professions › Subpart 3 - Practice › Chapter 45 - Physician Assistants › Section XLV-4513 - Causes for Nonissuance, Suspension, Revocation or Restrictions; Fines, Reinstatement

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The
				  board may refuse to issue, or may suspend, revoke or impose probationary or
				  other restrictions on, any license issued under this Chapter, or issue a
				  private or public reprimand, for the following causes:
1. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty
				  or nolo contendere to a criminal charge constituting a felony under the laws of
				  the United States or of any state;
2. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty
				  or nolo contendere to any criminal charge arising out of or in connection with
				  practice as a physician assistant;
3. fraud, deceit, or perjury in obtaining any
				  license or permit issued under this Chapter;
4. providing false testimony before the
				  board;
5. habitual or recurring
				  drunkenness;
6. habitual or
				  recurring use of morphine, opium, cocaine, drugs having a similar effect, or
				  other substances which may induce physiological or psychological
				  dependence;
7. aiding, abetting, or
				  assisting any physician in any act or course of conduct enumerated in Louisiana
				  Revised Statutes, Title 37, Section 1285;
8. efforts to deceive or defraud the
				  public;
9. incompetency;
10. immoral conduct in exercising the
				  privileges provided for by licensure under this Chapter;
11. persistent violation of federal or state
				  laws relative to control of social diseases;
12. interdiction or commitment by due process
				  of law;
13. inability to perform or
				  function as a physician assistant with reasonable skill or safety to patients
				  because of medical illness or deficiency; physical illness, including but not
				  limited to deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor skills;
				  and/or excessive use or abuse of drugs, including alcohol;
14. refusing to submit to the examination and
				  inquiry of an examining committee of physicians appointed or designated by the
				  board to inquire into the physician assistant's physical and mental fitness and
				  ability to provide patient services with reasonable skill and safety;
15. the refusal of the licensing authority of
				  another state to issue or renew a license, permit or certificate to act as a
				  physician assistant in that state, or the revocation, suspension or other
				  restriction imposed on a license, permit or certificate issued by such
				  licensing authority which prevents or restricts the functions, activities or
				  services of the physician assistant in that state; or
16. violation of any provision of this
				  Chapter, or of rules or regulations of the board or statute pertaining to
				  physician assistants;
17.
				  conviction or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any crime an
				  element of which is the manufacture, production, distribution, sale or exchange
				  of any controlled substance;
18.
				  prescribing legally controlled substances or any dependency-inducing medication
				  without legitimate medical justification therefor or in other than a legal or
				  legitimate manner; or
19. utilizing
				  prescriptive authority in violation of any of the provisions of §1501-1529 of
				  the board's rules.