North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 32 - NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD › Subchapter S - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section .0200 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT REGISTRATION › Section 32S .0219 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PRACTICE AND LIMITED LICENSE FOR DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The Board shall waive requirements for
				  licensure in the circumstances set forth in
				  G.S.
				  90-12.5.
(b) There are two ways for physician
				  assistants to practice under this Rule:
(1)
				  Hospital to Hospital Credentialing: A physician assistant who holds a full,
				  unlimited, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in another U.S. state,
				  territory, or district and has unrestricted hospital credentials and privileges
				  in any U.S. state, territory, or district may come to North Carolina and
				  practice medicine at a North Carolina hospital that is licensed by the North
				  Carolina Department of Health and Human Services upon the following terms and
				  conditions:
(A) the licensed North Carolina
				  hospital shall verify all physician assistant credentials and
				  privileges;
(B) the licensed North
				  Carolina hospital shall keep a list of all physician assistants coming to
				  practice and their respective supervising physiciansand shall provide this list
				  to the Board within 10 days of each physician assistant practicing at the
				  licensed North Carolina hospital. The licensed North Carolina hospital shall
				  also provide the Board a list of when each physician assistant has stopped
				  practicing medicine in North Carolina under this Rule within 10 days after each
				  physician assistant has stopped practicing medicine under this Rule;
(C) all physician assistants practicing under
				  this Rule shall be authorized to practice medicine in North Carolina and deemed
				  to be licensed to practice medicine in the State and the Board shall have
				  jurisdiction over all physician assistants practicing under this Rule for all
				  purposes set forth in or related to Article 1 of Chapter 90 of the North
				  Carolina General Statutes, and such jurisdiction shall continue in effect even
				  after any and all physician assistants have stopped practicing medicine under
				  this Rule;
(D) the physician
				  assistant must practice under the direct supervision of an on-site physician
				  and the supervising physician must be licensed in this State or approved to
				  practice in this State during a disaster or state of emergency pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  90-12.5;
(E) a physician assistant may practice under
				  this Rule for the shorter of:
(i) 30 days
				  from the date the physician assistant has started practicing under this Rule;
				  or
(ii) a statement by an
				  appropriate authority is made that the emergency or disaster declaration has
				  been withdrawn or ended and, at such time, the license deemed to be issued
				  shall become inactive; and
(F) physician assistants practicing under
				  this Rule shall not receive any compensation outside of their customary
				  compensation for the provision of medical services during a disaster or
				  emergency.