Sections
11 entriesSection 3534Establishes legislative intent that the physician assistant board seek ways to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency is impaired by dangerous-drug…Section 3534.1Requires the board to establish and administer a diversion program for physician assistants whose competency is impaired by drug or alcohol abuse.…Section 3534.2Requires each physician-assistant diversion committee to have at least three members, appointed by majority board vote for terms no longer than four…Section 3534.3Requires diversion-program committees to evaluate applicants, review treatment facilities and participant information, meet as needed, assess safe practice, and set written treatment,…Section 3534.4Requires physician-assistant diversion applicants to be California residents licensed by the board, have qualifying drug or alcohol abuse affecting safe practice, enter…Section 3534.5Allows termination from the physician-assistant diversion program for successful completion, treatment noncompliance, failure to meet criteria, lack of substantial benefit, or excessive…Section 3534.6Allows the board, by regulation, to add admission criteria for the program and additional causes for terminating a participant, beyond the criteria…Section 3534.7Requires all board and committee records, proceeding records, and records concerning a physician assistant’s participation in the program to remain confidential. Bars…Section 3534.8Allows a fee to be charged for participation in the program. The provision authorizes charging participants for program participation without specifying the…Section 3534.9Requires the board’s executive officer or diversion program manager to review a contracted diversion-program entity’s activities and performance every two years, including…Section 3534.10Prohibits physician-assistant diversion-program participation from serving as a defense to board disciplinary action and allows the board to discipline a physician assistant…