§1350.112. Employment by a Hospital or by Hospital Affiliates or Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Centers

a)         A physician assistant may provide services in a hospital, a hospital affiliate, or a licensed ambulatory surgical treatment center (ASTC) without a written collaborative agreement pursuant to Section 7.5 of the Act.  The physician assistant employed by a hospital, hospital affiliate or ASTC is not required to file a notice of employment or collaborative agreement with the Division.

 

b)         A physician assistant must possess clinical privileges recommended by the hospital medical staff and granted by the hospital or the consulting medical staff committee and ASTC in order to provide services. The medical staff or consulting medical staff committee shall periodically review the services of physician assistants granted clinical privileges, including any care provided in a hospital affiliate.

 

c)         The attending physician shall determine a physician assistant's role in providing care for his or her patients, except as otherwise provided in the medical staff bylaws or consulting committee policies. 

 

d)         A physician assistant practicing in a hospital affiliate may be, but is not required to be, granted authority to prescribe Schedule II through V controlled substances when that authority is recommended by the appropriate physician committee of the hospital affiliate and granted by the hospital affiliate.  To prescribe controlled substances, the physician assistant must obtain a mid-level practitioner controlled substance license.

 

e)         A hospital affiliate shall file with the Department notice of a grant of prescriptive authority and termination of that grant of authority in accordance with Section 1350.100.

 

f)         A physician assistant practicing in a hospital, hospital affiliate or ASTC is not required to apply for a mid-level license in accordance with the Illinois Controlled Substances Act to order controlled substances under Section 303.05 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act.

 

(Source:  Added at 44 Ill. Reg. 2519, effective January 31, 2020)