Bill > HB325

This bill amends Delaware law to change the title of "physician assistant" to "physician associate" and updates various statutes to reflect this change, ensuring that the rights and privileges of these healthcare professionals remain consistent. It also introduces provisions allowing physician associates with significant post-graduate clinical experience (over 6,000 hours) to apply for independent practice authority, meaning they can practice and prescribe without a collaborative agreement with a physician, under specific conditions and with appropriate training. The bill clarifies the roles and responsibilities of physician associates and their collaborating physicians, updates definitions across multiple titles of the Delaware Code to include "physician associate," and ensures that billing and reimbursement policies remain unaffected by the title change.