La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XLV-4513

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XLV-4513 - Causes for Nonissuance, Suspension, Revocation or Restrictions; Fines, Reinstatement

A. The board may refuse to issue, or may suspend, revoke or impose probationary or other restrictions on, any license issued under this Chapter, or issue a private or public reprimand, for the following causes:

1. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a criminal charge constituting a felony under the laws of the United States or of any state;

2. conviction of or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any criminal charge arising out of or in connection with practice as a physician assistant;

3. fraud, deceit, or perjury in obtaining any license or permit issued under this Chapter;

4. providing false testimony before the board;

5. habitual or recurring drunkenness;

6. habitual or recurring use of morphine, opium, cocaine, drugs having a similar effect, or other substances which may induce physiological or psychological dependence;

7. aiding, abetting, or assisting any physician in any act or course of conduct enumerated in Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 37, Section 1285;

8. efforts to deceive or defraud the public;

9. incompetency;

10. immoral conduct in exercising the privileges provided for by licensure under this Chapter;

11. persistent violation of federal or state laws relative to control of social diseases;

12. interdiction or commitment by due process of law;

13. inability to perform or function as a physician assistant with reasonable skill or safety to patients because of medical illness or deficiency; physical illness, including but not limited to deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor skills; and/or excessive use or abuse of drugs, including alcohol;

14. refusing to submit to the examination and inquiry of an examining committee of physicians appointed or designated by the board to inquire into the physician assistant's physical and mental fitness and ability to provide patient services with reasonable skill and safety;

15. the refusal of the licensing authority of another state to issue or renew a license, permit or certificate to act as a physician assistant in that state, or the revocation, suspension or other restriction imposed on a license, permit or certificate issued by such licensing authority which prevents or restricts the functions, activities or services of the physician assistant in that state; or

16. violation of any provision of this Chapter, or of rules or regulations of the board or statute pertaining to physician assistants;

17. conviction or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any crime an element of which is the manufacture, production, distribution, sale or exchange of any controlled substance;

18. prescribing legally controlled substances or any dependency-inducing medication without legitimate medical justification therefor or in other than a legal or legitimate manner; or

19. utilizing prescriptive authority in violation of any of the provisions of §1501-1529 of the board's rules.

B. The board may, as a probationary condition, or as a condition of the reinstatement of any license suspended or revoked hereunder, require the physician assistant and/or the supervising physician group to pay all costs of the board proceedings, including investigators', stenographers', and attorneys' fees, and to pay a fine not to exceed the sum of $5,000.

C. Any license suspended, revoked or otherwise restricted by the board may be reinstated by the board.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XLV-4513

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 4:112 (April 1978), amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 17:1107 (November 1991), LR 22:206 (March 1996), LR 25:33 (January 1999), LR 31:80 (January 2005).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1270(B)(6), 37:1360.23(D)and (F), 37:1360.31(B)(8).