West Virginia Code 30-3E-11 – Collaboration with physician assistants
(a) Unless otherwise prohibited by a health care facility, a physician who practices medicine or podiatry at a health care facility may collaborate with any physician assistant who holds an active practice notification with the same facility.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 30-3E-11
- Collaboration: means overseeing the activities of the medical services rendered by a physician assistant. See West Virginia Code 30-3E-1
- Health care facility: means any licensed hospital, nursing home, extended care facility, state health or mental institution, clinic, or physician office. See West Virginia Code 30-3E-1
- Physician: means a doctor of allopathic or osteopathic medicine who is fully licensed pursuant to the provisions of either §. See West Virginia Code 30-3E-1
- Physician assistant: means a person who meets the qualifications set forth in this article and is licensed pursuant to this article to practice medicine with a collaborating physician. See West Virginia Code 30-3E-1
- Practice notification: means a written notice to the appropriate licensing board that a physician assistant will practice in collaboration with one or more collaborating physicians in the state of West Virginia. See West Virginia Code 30-3E-1
(b) When collaborating with physician assistants, collaborating physicians shall observe, direct, and evaluate the physician assistant’s work, records, and practices as necessary for appropriate and meaningful collaboration.
(c) A health care facility is only legally responsible for the actions or omissions of a physician assistant when the physician assistant is employed by or on behalf of the facility.
(d) Every licensed physician assistant shall be individually responsible and liable for the care they provide. This article does not relieve physician assistants or collaborating physicians of responsibility and liability which otherwise may exist for acts and omissions occurring during collaboration.