Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 24 - Licensure of Physician Assistants (216-RICR-40-05-24) › Section 216-RICR-40-05-24.15 - Unprofessional Conduct

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Unprofessional
				  conduct shall include but not be limited to the following items or any
				  combination thereof:
1. Fraudulent or
				  deceptive procuring or use of a license;
2. Representation of himself or herself as a
				  physician;
3. Conviction of a
				  felony;
4. Conviction of a crime
				  arising out of the practice of medicine;
5. All advertising of medical business which
				  is intended or has a tendency to deceive the public;
6. Abandonment of a patient;
7. The use of habit-forming drugs and/or
				  alcohol, when such use has the effect of impairing the ability to perform
				  licensed duties.
8. Promotion of
				  the sale of drugs, devices appliances, or goods or services provided for a
				  patient in such a manner as to exploit the patient for the financial gain of
				  the physician assistant;
9. Immoral
				  conduct of a physician assistant in the practice of medicine;
10. Willfully making and filing false reports
				  or records;
11. Willful omission to
				  file or record or willfully impeding or obstructing a filing or recording, or
				  inducing another person to omit to file or record medical or other reports as
				  required by law;
12. Agreeing with
				  clinical or bioanalytical laboratories to accept payments from such
				  laboratories for individual tests or test series for patients;
13. Practicing with an unlicensed physician
				  or physician assistant or aiding or abetting such unlicensed persons in the
				  practice of medicine;
14. Offering,
				  undertaking or agreeing to cure or treat a disease by a secret method,
				  procedure, treatment or medicine;
15. Professional or mental
				  incompetence;
16. Surrender,
				  revocation, suspension, limitation of privilege based on quality of care
				  provided, or any other disciplinary action against a license or authorization
				  to practice in another State or jurisdiction; or surrender, revocation,
				  suspension, or any other disciplinary action relating to membership on any
				  medical staff or in any medical professional association, or society while
				  under disciplinary investigation by any of those authorities or bodies for acts
				  or conduct similar to acts or conduct which would constitute grounds for action
				  as set forth in the Act;
17.
				  Surrender, revocation, suspension, limitation of privilege based on quality of
				  care provided, or any other disciplinary action against a license or
				  authorization to practice in another State or jurisdiction; or surrender,
				  revocation, suspension, or any other disciplinary action relating to membership
				  on any medical staff or in any medical professional association, or society
				  while under disciplinary investigation by any of those authorities or bodies
				  for acts or conduct similar to acts or conduct which would constitute grounds
				  for action as set forth in the Act;
18. Failure to furnish the Board, the
				  Department, investigator or representatives, information legally requested by
				  the Board;
19. Violation of any
				  provision(s) of the Act or this Part, or an action, stipulation, or agreement
				  of the Board;
20. Cheating or
				  attempting to subvert the certifying examination;
21. Violating any State or Federal law or
				  Regulation relating to controlled substances;
22. Medical malpractice;
23. Sexual contact between a physician
				  assistant and patient during the existence of the physician assistant/patient
				  relationship;
24. Providing
				  services to a person who is making a claim as a result of a excess of the
				  reimbursement to the physician assistant by the insurer as a condition of
				  providing or continuing to provide services or treatment.
25. Incompetent, negligent, or willful
				  misconduct in the practice of medicine which includes the rendering of
				  medically unnecessary services, and any departure from, or the failure to
				  conform to, the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing medical practice
				  in his or her area of expertise as is determined by the Board including the
				  CDC's "Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: minimum
				  Expectations for Safe Care" (September 2016) incorporated by reference at
				  §
											24.2   of
				  this Part. The Board need not establish actual injury to the patient in order
				  to adjudge a physician assistant guilty of an unacceptable practice pursuant to
				  §
											24.15    of this Part.
26. Prescribing a
				  controlled substance to oneself or an immediate family member under any
				  circumstances.