Bill Text: NJ S3237 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for licensing of radiologist assistants by DEP under "Radiologic Technologist Act" and requires State Board of Medical Examiners to approve procedures and establish level of supervision necessary for practice of radiologist assistants. *
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-18 - Substituted by A4871/4810 (ACS) [S3237 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S3237-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator NELLIE POU
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Senator BRIAN P. STACK
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to approve procedures and establish level of supervision necessary for practice of radiologist assistants.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the practice of radiologist assistants and supplementing chapter 9 of Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The State Board of Medical Examiners shall approve delegated fluoroscopic procedures, and establish the level of radiologist supervision necessary, for radiologist assistants to practice as authorized pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners, in the Department of Environmental Protection. The approved delegated fluoroscopic procedures shall include those procedures contained in the "Registered Radiologist Assistant Role Delineation," as supplemented or amended by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
b. The State Board of Medical Examiners shall approve the delegated fluoroscopic procedures and establish the necessary level of supervision, as required under subsection a. of this section, and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), no later than six months following the effective date of this act.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill directs the State Board of Medical Examiners (BME) to adopt rules and regulations, within six months following the bill's enactment, as is necessary to allow radiologist assistants to practice in New Jersey. Radiologist assistants are advanced-level radiologic technologists who improve patient access to timely radiologic care, and extend the capacity of radiologists in the diagnostic imaging environment, by performing patient assessment, patient management, fluoroscopy, and other radiology procedures under radiologist supervision, and by making initial observations of diagnostic images. They effectively reduce the workload of radiologists, and improve productivity and efficiency in the diagnostic imaging environment, by performing exams when a radiologist is not available, and by allowing radiologists to spend more time on image interpretation and diagnosis and the performance of invasive procedures that lie outside the scope of the assistant's practice.
Under the bill, the BME will approve delegated fluoroscopic procedures, and establish the level of supervision necessary, for radiologist assistants to practice as authorized pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners, in the Department of Environmental Protection. The approved delegated fluoroscopic procedures will include those procedures contained in the "Registered Radiologist Assistant Role Delineation," as supplemented or amended by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists. The bill provides that the BME will approve the delegated fluoroscopic procedures and establish the necessary level of supervision no later than six months following the bill's enactment.
