Sentences with phrase «practitioner under a law of a state»

means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners.

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I'll comment since a practitioner will know better than I, but I would suspect that in the cases where you are suing for compensation or damages for distress or whatever (assuming that is a real claim), you would submit the complaint stating that there, in fact, was emotional distress (or whatever the standard is under the law of your jurisdiction) and leave it at that.

Similarly, most state laws permit physicians to direct their medical assistants to work under the supervision of their nurse practitioners or other advanced practice nurses.

For these reasons it is legally permissible for such medical assistants to be delegated by a provider (i.e., a physician or a nonphysician practitioner) some CCM and TCM tasks that are delegable to knowledgeable and competent unlicensed professionals such as medical assistants under state law, and some of the tasks are billable incident to the provider's services under CPT code 99490 (CCM) or CPT codes 99495 and 99496 (TCM).

Under the laws of most states, physicians are permitted (explicitly or implicitly) to ask health professionals, such as advanced practice nurses (APNs)-- most often nurse practitioners — physician assistants, and registered nurses to supervise medical assistants in the performance of duties delegated to the medical assistants by the physician.

Because physicians and nonphysician practitioners are permitted under state law to delegate to medical assistants the performance of certain non-face-to-face tasks, the CMS rules do not prohibit the billing of such services as incident to the CCM services of a practitioner.

As such, they may be delegated non-face-to-face tasks incident to the services of a physician or a nonphysician practitioner as long as state law permits medical assistants to perform these tasks under general provider supervision.

In any case, says MacKenzie, even if their clients don't fill out the form, real estate practitioners, if they know of defects, remain obliged under state licensing law to let buyers know of them.