Colorado § 12-240-113 - Physician assistant license - qualifications.

§ 12-240-113. Physician assistant license - qualifications.

(1) To be licensed as a physician assistant under this article 240, an applicant shall be at least twenty-one years of age and shall have:

(a) Successfully completed an education program for physician assistants that conforms to standards approved by the board, which standards may be established by utilizing the assistance of any responsible accrediting organization;

(b) Successfully completed the national certifying examination for physician assistants that is administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants or a successor organization or successfully completed any other examination approved by the board; and

(c) Submitted an application to the board in the manner designated by the board and paid the appropriate fee established by the board pursuant to section 12-20-105.

(2) The board may determine whether any applicant for licensure as a physician assistant possesses education, experience, or training in health care that is sufficient to be accepted in lieu of the qualifications required for licensure under subsection (1) of this section.

(3) A person applying for a license to practice as a physician assistant in this state shall notify the board, in connection with his or her application for licensure, of the commission of any act that would be grounds for disciplinary action against a licensed physician assistant under section 12-240-121, along with an explanation of the circumstances of the act. The board may deny licensure to any applicant as set forth in section 12-240-120.

(4) A person licensed as a physician assistant shall not perform any act that constitutes the practice of medicine within a hospital or nursing care facility that is licensed pursuant to part 1 of article 3 of title 25 or that is required to obtain a certificate of compliance pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a)(II) without authorization from the governing board of the hospital or nursing care facility. The governing board may grant, deny, or limit a physician assistant's authorization based on its own established procedures.

(5) The board may take any disciplinary action with respect to a physician assistant license as it may with respect to the license of a physician, in accordance with section 12-240-125.

(6) The board shall license and keep a record of physician assistants who have been licensed pursuant to this section. A licensed physician assistant shall renew his or her license in accordance with section 12-240-130.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1185, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-36-107.4 as it existed prior to 2019.