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TITLE 22EXAMINING BOARDS
PART 9TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
CHAPTER 193STANDING DELEGATION ORDERS
RULE §193.10Registration of Delegation and Prescriptive Authority Agreements

(a) The Board shall maintain and exchange information with the Texas Board of Nursing, and the Texas Physician Assistant Board, regarding the names locations and license numbers, of each physician, advanced practice registered nurse, and physician assistant who has entered into a prescriptive authority agreement.

  (1) The Board shall immediately notify the Texas Physician Assistant Board and the Texas Board of Nursing when a license holder of the Board who has registered a prescriptive authority agreement(s) becomes the subject of an investigation involving the delegation and supervision of prescriptive authority, as well as the final disposition of any such investigation. Such notifications shall be made subject to, and without waiving any confidentiality provisions related to board investigations provided for under the Act and this Title.

  (2) The Board shall maintain and share with the other boards a list of board license holders who have been subject to disciplinary action involving the delegation and supervision of prescriptive authority.

(b) Physicians who enter into prescriptive authority agreements with physician assistants or advanced practice registered nurses must register with the Board, within 30 days of signing the prescriptive authority agreement the following information:

  (1) The name and license number of the physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse to whom the delegation has been made;

  (2) The date on which the prescriptive authority agreement was executed;

  (3) The address(es) at which the advanced nurse practice registered nurse or physician assistant will be prescribing under the prescriptive authority agreement; and

  (4) whether the prescriptive authority being exercised under the prescriptive authority agreement is being exercised in a practice servicing a medically underserved population.

(c) The board shall maintain and make available to the public, a searchable online lists of a of physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants who have entered into prescriptive authority agreements, and identify the physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant, with whom each physicians, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant has entered into a prescriptive authority agreement.

(d) A physician terminating a prescriptive authority agreement shall notify the board in writing within 30 days of such termination.


Source Note: The provisions of this §193.10 adopted to be effective November 7, 2013, 38 TexReg 7711

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