ALBME

Administrative Rules

Administrative Rules are published by the Legislative Reference Service

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Proposed Rules

September 2024

None.

August 2024

540-X-7-.08 Grandfather Clause - Physician Assistant (P.A.) - proposed amendment to provide that a person who holds a medical degree but is not licensed to practice medicine in Alabama may be eligible for an Physician Assistant license if all statutory requirements for a license to practice as a physician assistant are met.

July 2024

540-X-26-.05, Limitations (Pharmacy Collaborative Practice) - proposed amendment to limit the number of "test and treat" agreements among collaborating physicians and collaborative pharmacists to three each.

JUNE 2024

540-X-7-.08, Grandfather Clause - Physician Assistant - proposed amendment to remove provision prohibiting a person holding a degree of doctor of medicine but who is not licensed to practice medicine in Alabama is not eligible for a license and registration as a physician assistant.

540-X-7-.29 and .62, Basic Requirement (CME) - proposed amendment to require all newly licensed and actively licensed physician assistants and anesthesiologist assistants complete a course in the area of professional boundaries within 12 months of issuance of a new license and by Dec. 31, 2025, for active licensees.

540-X-14-.02, Basic Requirement (CME) - proposed amendment to require all newly licensed and actively licensed physicians complete a course in the area of professional boundaries within 12 months of issuance of a new license and by Dec. 31, 2025, for active licensees.

May 2024

540-X-7-.30 Physician Assistants' Advisory Committee - proposed amendment to limit reappointment of committee members to two additional terms of three years.


Certified Final Rules

September 2024

540-X-26-.05 LimitationsRelated Documents - amended to limit the number of "test and treat" agreements among collaborating physicians and collaborating pharmacists to three each.

August 2024

540-X-7-.29 Continuing Medical Education - Physician AssistantRelated Documents - amended to require that all newly licensed and actively licensed physician assistants complete a course in the area of professional boundaries within 12 months of issuance of a new license and by Dec. 31, 2025 for active licensees.

540-X-7-.62 Continuing Medical Education - Anesthesiologist Assistant (A.A.)   Related Documents - amended to require that all newly licensed and actively licensed anesthesiologist assistants complete a course in the area of professional boundaries within 12 months of issuance of a new license and by Dec. 31, 2025 for active licensees.

540-X-14-.02 Basic RequirementRelated Documents - amended to require that all newly licensed and actively licensed physicians complete a course in the area of professional boundaries within 12 months of issuance of a new license and by Dec. 31, 2025 for active licensees.

July 2024

540-X-7-.30, Physician Assistants' Advisory Committee - rule amended to limit reappointment of committee members to two additional terms of three years.

June 2024

540-X-9-.13, Physician Issued Verbal Do Not Attempt Resuscitation  (DNAR) Order - new rule sets forth process for physicians to verbally communicate and affirm to a facility a patient's desire that resuscitative measures be withheld so that undesired resuscitative measures and/or hospital transfers do not occur.

May 2024

Chapter 540-X-27 Bridge Year Graduate Physician - new chapter of rules pursuant to Alabama Act No. 2023-233 (Ala. Code § 34-24-75.2) to establish the Bridge Year Graduate Physician Permit