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This bill expands the scope of practice for certified medical assistants (CMAs) by allowing physician assistants (PAs) to delegate certain tasks, including medication administration, to them. A PA is a healthcare professional who practices medicine as part of a team, with a licensed physician. The bill clarifies that PAs can delegate tasks to CMAs under specific conditions, such as being in collaboration with a physician or having a collaborative agreement. It also adds specific categories of medications that CMAs are authorized to administer or prepare, including various types of injections, vaccines, oral medications, topical treatments, and certain anesthetic agents, while also specifying limitations on anesthetic agent administration. Furthermore, the bill updates the recognized certifying bodies for CMAs and places the responsibility on ambulatory outpatient clinics for training and verifying CMA competency, especially for medication administration. Importantly, the bill states that PAs cannot delegate patient care activities that require their own professional judgment.

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