PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
(Medical Quality Assurance Commission)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Physician assistant remote site criteria, WAC 246-918-120.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 18.71A.020.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The commission has had concerns regarding the approval criteria for remote sites for physician assistants that are new graduates without the experience needed to practice medicine in a site that is physically separate from the supervising physician. The amendment would create consistency in the criteria to approve remote sites for all new graduates.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Collaborative rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Beverly A. Teeter, Medical Quality Assurance Commission, P.O. Box 47866, Olympia, WA 98504-7866, phone (360) 236-4788, fax (360) 586-4573.
June 29, 2001
Maryella E. Jansen
Acting Executive Director