Are the physicians required to co-sign pa documentation

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Assignment:

Rockville Family Practice in Florida is considering hiring physician assistants (PA). The physicians need some clarification on the scope of work permitted by law and want you, their HIM manager, to find out the answers to several questions. You identify the following website as a resource to find the answers:

1. Research the questions and provide your conclusions to the physicians in a memo.

Is there a limit to the number of PAs that can be supervised by a physician?
Can a PA write prescriptions?
Are the physicians required to co-sign PA documentation?

2. Do some further research and answer the following questions.

Compare the results for Florida with those from Texas, Alabama, and Pennsylvania. Outline the differences.
Offer an opinion for the difference in the number of PAs physicians can supervise among these states.
Critique Alabama's co-signature requirement. As an HIM manager, what difficulty do you see with that state's co-signature requirement?

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