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SVMIC Advanced Practice Provider Collaboration: Assessing the Risk

The decedent’s surviving spouse filed a medical

malpractice action against the supervising physician and
his group. During the litigation, the doctor was censured

by the Board of Medical Examiners, which fined Dr. White
and placed his medical license on probation for five years

for the alleged violations.

The court opinion outlined the requirements that apply to a
supervising physician who supervises an APP with prescriptive

privileges:
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• Protocols are required and:

a) shall be jointly developed and approved by the
supervising physician and physician assistant;

b) shall outline and cover the applicable standard of
care;

c) shall be reviewed and updated biennially;

d) shall be maintained at the practice site;

e) shall account for all protocol drugs by appropriate

formulary;

f) shall be specific to the population seen;

g) shall be dated and signed; and

h) shall be made available upon request for inspection
by the board or the committee on physician
assistants.

26 TENN . COMP . R. & REGS. 0880-2-.18(5)-(8) (2007).

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