148C.3  Licensure.
  1.  The board shall adopt rules to govern the licensure of physician assistants. An applicant for licensure shall submit the fee prescribed by the board and shall meet the requirements established by the board with respect to each of the following:
  a.  Academic qualifications, including evidence of graduation from an approved program. A physician assistant who is not a graduate of an approved program, but who passed the national commission on certification of physician assistants’ national certifying examination prior to 1986, is exempt from this graduation requirement.
  b.  Evidence of passing the national commission on the certification of physician assistants’ national certifying examination or an equivalent examination approved by the board.
  c.  Hours of continuing medical education necessary to become or remain licensed.
  2.  a.  Joint rules shall be adopted by the board and the board of medicine pursuant to this chapter requiring a licensed physician assistant to be supervised by a physician during the first two years of independent practice if the physician assistant has not previously practiced under a supervising physician or in collaboration with the appropriate physician or other health care professional for a period of at least two years. The rules shall determine the terms of collaboration for a physician assistant engaged in independent practice after the conclusion of two years of practice under a supervising physician. The rules shall also provide that a physician assistant shall notify the board of the identity of the physician assistant’s supervising physician and of any change in the status of the supervisory relationship.
  b.  For purposes of this chapter, “supervision” does not require the personal presence of the physician at the place where medical services are rendered except insofar as the personal presence is expressly required by this chapter or by rules of the board adopted pursuant to chapter 17A.
  3.  A licensed physician assistant shall perform only those services for which the licensed physician assistant is qualified by training or education and which are not prohibited by the board.
  4.  The board may issue a temporary license under special circumstances and upon conditions prescribed by the board. A temporary license shall not be valid for more than one year and shall not be renewed more than once.
  5.  The board may issue an inactive license under conditions prescribed by rules adopted by the board.
  6.  The board shall adopt rules pursuant to this section after consultation with the board of medicine.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, §148B.3; C81, §148C.3; 82 Acts, ch 1005, §5]
88 Acts, ch 1225, §17; 2003 Acts, ch 93, §9, 14; 2004 Acts, ch 1101, §24; 2007 Acts, ch 10, §106; 2012 Acts, ch 1037, §1; 2020 Acts, ch 1020, §5, 12; 2023 Acts, ch 73, §12
Referred to in §272C.2C