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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="15-314" title_number="15" title_name="Physician Assistants" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Certification">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 15–315 of this subtitle, a disciplinary panel, on the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum, may reprimand any physician assistant, place any physician assistant on probation, or suspend or revoke a license if the physician assistant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license for the applicant or licensee or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is guilty of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Immoral conduct in the practice of medicine; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Professionally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Physically incompetent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Mentally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Solicits or advertises in violation of § 14–503 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Abandons a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Habitually is intoxicated;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Is addicted to, or habitually abuses, any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Provides professional services:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>While under the influence of alcohol; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>While using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article, or other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Promotes the sale of drugs, devices, appliances, or goods to a patient so as to exploit the patient for financial gain;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record in the practice of medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Willfully fails to file or record any medical report as required under law, willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of the report, or induces another to fail to file or record the report;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>On proper request, and in accordance with the provisions of Title 4, Subtitle 3 of the Health – General Article, fails to provide details of a patient’s medical record to the patient, another physician, or hospital;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Solicits professional patronage through an agent or other person or profits from the acts of a person who is represented as an agent of the physician;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Pays or agrees to pay any sum to any person for bringing or referring a patient or accepts or agrees to accept any sum from any person for bringing or referring a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Agrees with a clinical or bioanalytical laboratory to make payments to the laboratory for a test or test series for a patient, unless the licensed physician assistant discloses on the bill to the patient or third–party payor:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The name of the laboratory;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The amount paid to the laboratory for the test or test series; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The amount of procurement or processing charge of the licensed physician, if any, for each specimen taken;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Makes a willful misrepresentation in treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>Practices medicine with an unauthorized person or aids an unauthorized person in the practice of medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Establishes a pattern of excessive or medically unnecessary procedures or treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>Offers, undertakes, or agrees to cure or treat disease by a secret method, treatment, or medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <text>Is disciplined by a licensing or disciplinary authority or convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country, or disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <text>Fails to meet appropriate standards for the delivery of quality medical and surgical care performed in an outpatient surgical facility, office, hospital, or any other location in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>Willfully submits false statements to collect fees for which services are not provided;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="24">
      <text>Was subject to investigation or disciplinary action by a licensing or disciplinary authority or by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under this section and the licensee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Surrendered the license issued by the state or country to the state or country; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Allowed the license issued by the state or country to expire or lapse;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="25">
      <text>Willfully fails to report suspected child abuse in violation of § 5–704 of the Family Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="26">
      <text>Fails to educate a patient being treated for breast cancer of alternative methods of treatment as required by § 20–113 of the Health – General Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="27">
      <text>Sells, prescribes, gives away, or administers drugs for illegal or illegitimate medical purposes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="28">
      <text>Fails to comply with the provisions of § 12–102 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="29">
      <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the physician assistant is licensed and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="30">
      <text>Except as to an association that has remained in continuous existence since July 1, 1963:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Associates with a pharmacist as a partner or co–owner of a pharmacy for the purpose of operating a pharmacy;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Employs a pharmacist for the purpose of operating a pharmacy; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Contracts with a pharmacist for the purpose of operating a pharmacy;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="31">
      <text>Except in an emergency life–threatening situation where it is not feasible or practicable, fails to comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines on universal precautions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="32">
      <text>Fails to display the notice required under § 14–415 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="33">
      <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation conducted by the Board or a disciplinary panel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="34">
      <text>Is convicted of insurance fraud as defined in § 27–801 of the Insurance Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="35">
      <text>Is in breach of a service obligation resulting from the applicant’s or licensee’s receipt of State or federal funding for the physician assistant’s medical education;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="36">
      <text>Willfully makes a false representation when seeking or making application for licensure or any other application related to the practice of medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="37">
      <text>Intimidates or influences, or attempts to intimidate or influence, for the purpose of causing any person to withhold or change testimony in hearings or proceedings before the Board or a disciplinary panel or those otherwise delegated to the Office of Administrative Hearings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="38">
      <text>Willfully hinders, prevents, or otherwise delays any person from making information available to the Board or a disciplinary panel in furtherance of any investigation of the Board or a disciplinary panel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="39">
      <text>Intentionally misrepresents credentials for the purpose of testifying or rendering an expert opinion in hearings or proceedings before the Board or a disciplinary panel or those otherwise delegated to the Office of Administrative Hearings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="40">
      <text>Fails to keep adequate medical records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="41">
      <text>Performs medical acts in a manner that is not consistent with the collaboration agreement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="42">
      <text>Performs medical acts which are outside the education, training, and experience of the physician assistant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="43">
      <text>Performs medical acts that are not customary to the practice of the patient care team physicians listed on the collaboration agreement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="44">
      <text>Practices as a physician assistant without first providing notice to the Board as required under § 15–302(a) of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="45">
      <text>Fails to complete a criminal history records check under § 14–308.1 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="46">
      <text>Fails to comply with the requirements of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program under Title 21, Subtitle 2A of the Health – General Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="47">
      <text>Fails to comply with any State or federal law pertaining to the practice as a physician assistant; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="48">
      <text>Willfully makes a misrepresentation to a disciplinary panel.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the filing of certified docket entries with the Board by the Office of the Attorney General, a disciplinary panel shall order the suspension of a license if the physician assistant is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere with respect to a crime involving moral turpitude, whether or not any appeal or other proceeding is pending to have the conviction or plea set aside.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After completion of the appellate process if the conviction has not been reversed or the plea has not been set aside with respect to a crime involving moral turpitude, a disciplinary panel shall order the revocation of a license on the certification by the Office of the Attorney General.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
