The Texas Medical Board has adopted rules in the following areas:
Fees and Penalties
22 TAC §175.1, §175.2
The amendment to §175.1 increases application fees in accordance with the 2014-2015 General Appropriations Act (Senate Bill 1), Texas Medical Board Contingent Revenue Rider 5 (83rd Regular Session).
The amendment to §175.2 increases registration and renewal fees in accordance with the 2014-2015 General Appropriations Act (Senate Bill 1), Texas Medical Board Contingent Revenue Rider 5 (83rd Regular Session).
Physician Assistants
22 TAC §§185.2, 185.4, 185.10, 185.11, 185.13, 185.14, 185.30, 185.31
Amendments in these sections change definitions, notification requirements, procedures for crediting training, and other items.
New §185.30 provides that physicians may delegate to a physician assistant acting under adequate physician supervision the act of prescribing or ordering a drug or device through a prescriptive authority agreement, and new §185.31 sets forth minimum requirements for valid prescriptive authority agreements, including requirements for periodic face-to-face meetings with the supervising physicians to discuss patient care.
Procedural Rules
22 TAC §§187.35, 187.37, 187.38
Changes to these sections affect administrative law judge procedures and “final order and “final decision” procedural requirements.
Compliance Program
22 TAC §189.4
The amendment to §189.4 corrects a citation made to another Board rule.