S.C. Code Ann. § 40-47-970
Limitations on permissible medical act, task, or function physician assistant may perform
Effective May 21, 20132000 Act No. 359, Section 1; 2006 Act No. 244, Section 8; 2013 Act No. 28, Section 10, eff May 21, 2013.
A physician assistant may not:
- (1) perform a medical act, task, or function which has not been listed and approved on the scope of practice guidelines;
- (2) prescribe drugs, medications, or devices not specifically authorized by the supervising physician and documented in the written scope of practice guidelines;
- (3) prescribe, under any circumstances, controlled substances in Schedule II except as authorized in Section 40-47-965;
- (4) perform a medical act, task, or function that is outside the usual practice of the supervising physician.
HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 359, Section 1; 2006 Act No. 244, Section 8; 2013 Act No. 28, Section 10, eff May 21, 2013.