(a) The state or county medical or osteopathic medical society or any state professional organization of physician assistants or any physician, physician assistant or holder of a permit issued pursuant to section 20-12h or subsection (d) of section 20-12b or any hospital shall within thirty days, and the board or any individual may, file a petition when such society, organization, practitioner, hospital, board or individual has any information that appears to show that a physician assistant is or may be unable to practice as a physician assistant with reasonable skill or safety for any of the reasons listed in section 20-12f. Petitions shall be filed with the department.

(b) Any health care facility licensed pursuant to subsection (a) of section 19a-491 which terminates or restricts the staff membership or privileges of any physician assistant or holder of a permit issued pursuant to section 20-12h or subsection (b) of section 20-12b shall, not later than fifteen days after the effective date of such action, notify the department of such action.

(P.A. 90-211, S. 7, 23; P.A. 95-74, S. 5, 9; 95-271, S. 5, 40; P.A. 99-102, S. 10.)

History: P.A. 95-74 and P.A. 95-271 amended Subsec. (b) to expand physician assistant notice requirements to holders of temporary and training permits, effective July 1, 1995, and July 6, 1995, respectively; P.A. 95-271 also amended Subsec. (a) to add osteopathic physicians and holders of training and temporary physician assistant permits as persons required to file petitions, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathic physicians from Subsec. (a).