Bill Text: AZ HB2025 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Scope of practice; medical assistants
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2025-02-27 - Assigned to Senate RULES Committee [HB2025 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2025-Introduced.html
PREFILED JAN 07 2025
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REFERENCE TITLE: medical assistants; scope of practice |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2025 |
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Introduced by Representative Bliss
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AN ACT
Amending section 32-1456, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the ARizona medical board.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 32-1456, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
32-1456. Medical assistants; allowable tasks; training; use of title; violation; classification
A. A medical assistant may perform the following medical procedures under the direct supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner:
1. Take body fluid specimens.
2. Administer injections.
3. If the medical assistant has completed the appropriate training, Place a catheter.
B. The board by rule may prescribe other medical procedures that a medical assistant may perform under the direct supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner on a determination by the board that the procedures may be competently performed by a medical assistant.
C. Without the direct supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner, a medical assistant may do the following tasks:
1. Perform billing and coding.
2. Verify insurance.
3. Make patient appointments.
4. Perform scheduling.
5. Record the findings of a doctor of medicine in patient charts and transcribe materials in patient charts and records.
6. Perform visual acuity screening as part of a routine physical.
7. Take and record patient vital signs and medical history on medical records.
8. Communicate documented medical advice, documented interpretation of test results and documented orders from a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
9. Obtain, process and communicate medication or procedure prior authorization as documented and ordered by a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
D. The board by rule shall prescribe medical assistant training requirements. The training requirements for a medical assistant may be satisfied through a training program that meets all of the following:
1. Is designed and offered by a physician.
2. Meets or exceeds any of the approved training program requirements specified in rule.
3. Verifies the entry-level competencies of a medical assistant as prescribed by rule.
4. Provides written verification to the individual of successful completion of the training program.
E. A person who uses the title "medical assistant" or a related abbreviation is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor unless that person is working as a medical assistant under the direct supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner or possesses written verification of successful completion of a training program provided pursuant to subsection D of this section.
