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Sampling Several PAs have inquired about the status of their supervising physician being able to delegate the authority to request, sign for, and distribute pharmaceutical samples. The legislation that allows PA's to sign for pharmaceutical samples went into effect on July 1, 2006. However, at this time, the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (CSBME) has not established a Rule to provide official direction for the physician/PA teams to fully utilize this privilege. However, as PAs are aware the CSBME requested most PAs to re-submit a job description in late 2006. At that time "sampling" was added to the Basic Job Description (BJD). Conversations with CSBME staff confirm that if a PA and his or her supervising physician have sent in that job description with sampling listed as one of the delegated duties, AND IF THE BOARD HAS APPROVED THE JOB DESCRIPTION, then the PA may begin to exercise sampling authority. The CSBME had proposed a rule to implement the sampling legislation. Unfortunately, while not controversial, the sampling rule was part of another issue (dealing with PAs being able to pay physicians for supervisory services). The latter rule was withdrawn and inadvertently the sampling rule was as well. The Board is expected to re-post the "sampling rule" shortly.
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