House File 2260 HOUSE FILE BY UPMEYER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act designating physician assistants as providers of health 2 care services pursuant to managed care or prepaid services 3 contracts under the medical assistance program. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5429YH 80 6 rn/pj/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 249A.4, subsection 7, unnumbered 1 2 paragraph 2, Code Supplement 2003, is amended to read as 1 3 follows: 1 4 Advanced registered nurse practitioners licensed pursuant 1 5 to chapter 152 and physician assistants licensed pursuant to 1 6 chapter 148C shall be regarded as approved providers of health 1 7 care services, including primary care, for purposes of managed 1 8 care or prepaid services contracts under the medical 1 9 assistance program. This paragraph shall not be construed to 1 10 expand the scope of practice of an advanced registered nurse 1 11 practitioner pursuant to chapter 152 or a physician assistant 1 12 pursuant to chapter 148C. 1 13 EXPLANATION 1 14 This bill provides that physician assistants licensed 1 15 pursuant to Code chapter 148C shall be regarded as approved 1 16 providers of health care services, including primary care, for 1 17 purposes of managed care or prepaid services contracts under 1 18 the medical assistance program. 1 19 LSB 5429YH 80 1 20 rn/pj/5 1 21 1 22 1 23 1 24 1 25 1 26 1 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35