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Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Medicine
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Physician Assistants [18 VAC 85 ‑ 50]
Action Removal of patient care team physician or podiatrist name from prescriptions issued by physician assistants
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ends 4/9/2025
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3/11/25  4:36 pm
Commenter: Josh Detrick

Support removal of physician name from controlled substance prescriptions
 

As a practicing surgical physician associate, I support the removal of the physicians name from controlled substance prescriptions. Many EMRs lack this capability and since it is required to transmit those ordered electronically this inherently causes some level of non compliance. Also, I question the utility as many PAs work at a different site from their physician. We have prescriptive authority to order the medications, what purpose does their name serve? We have our DEA on the prescription already. Please consider removing this antiquated process. 

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