2004 Minnesota Statutes

     147A.23 Responding to disaster situations. 

    (a) A registered physician assistant or a physician 
 assistant duly licensed or credentialed in a United States 
 jurisdiction who is responding to a need for medical care 
 created by a state or local disaster may render such care as the 
 physician assistant is able to provide, under the physician 
 assistant's license, registration, or credential, without the 
 need of a physician and physician assistant agreement as 
 required under section 147A.20.  Physician supervision, as 
 required under section 147A.09, must be provided under the 
 direction of a physician licensed under chapter 147 who is 
 involved with the disaster response.  The physician assistant 
 must establish a temporary supervisory agreement with the 
 physician providing supervision before rendering care. 

    (b) The physician who provides supervision to a physician 
 assistant while the physician assistant is rendering care in a 
 disaster in accordance with this section may do so without 
 meeting the requirements of section 147A.20. 

    (c) The supervising physician who otherwise provides 
 supervision to a physician assistant under a physician and 
 physician assistant agreement described in section 147A.20 shall 
 not be held medically responsible for the care rendered by a 
 physician assistant pursuant to paragraph (a).  Services 
 provided by a physician assistant under paragraph (a) shall be 
 considered outside the scope of the relationship between the 
 supervising physician and the physician assistant. 

    HIST: 1999 c 226 s 1; 2000 c 298 s 1