Guest JMPA Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I received this lovely email today, please comment as seen fit. A bill to allow Physician Assistants (PAs) to perform fluoroscopy has been introduced in the New York State Senate by the Health Committee Chairman, Gustavo Rivera. The New York State Radiological Society is opposed to S1812 (Rivera) due to patient safety concerns including inadequate physician supervision of a PA performing fluoroscopy both during clinical training and as part of their practice. Please Call Sen. Andrew Lanza (R) at (518) 455-3215 to express your opposition to this bill. Please Ask your Sen. Andrew Lanza (R) to tell Senator Gustavo Rivera that S1812 Jeopardizes Patient Safety. You can find talking points and background information on the PA issue at Thank You, Richard Friedland, MD, FACR President NYSRS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 23, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 6:37 PM, JMPA said: I received this lovely email today, please comment as seen fit. A bill to allow Physician Assistants (PAs) to perform fluoroscopy has been introduced in the New York State Senate by the Health Committee Chairman, Gustavo Rivera. The New York State Radiological Society is opposed to S1812 (Rivera) due to LOSS OF PHYSICIAN INCOME Please Call Sen. Andrew Lanza (R) at (518) 455-3215 to express your opposition to this bill. Please Ask your Sen. Andrew Lanza (R) to tell Senator Gustavo Rivera that S1812 Jeopardizes Patient Safety. You can find talking points and background information on the PA issue Thank You, Richard Friedland, MD, FACR President NYSRS fixed that for you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sas5814 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Physicians oppose everything related to non-physicians and they always drape "patient safety" over everything without a lick of proof.NY PAs and your state society should organize a call in campaign to Sen Lanza's office and Sen Rivera's and see if you can outnumber the calls from physicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediMike Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Also, you may want to reset that link, looks like your personal info is still auto filled on there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hope2PA Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 One of my parents had videofloroscopy performed by Speech therapist. No radiologist, only therapist, tech, and myself( I was allowed due to health of parent and a little professional courtesy) . Report was from Speech Therapist, may have been reviewed and cosigned by Radiologist, I don't recall, but definitely no radiologist even checked in during exam. We actually discussed training and she said flouroscopy was not something they really learned in grad school, but after becoming hospital therapist she was trained. However, she was a Speech therapist, not Speech "Assistant" as the Assistants are not allowed to perform that study. Pretty sure no Speech, PT or OT assistants are allowed to legally evaluate/diagnose anything, only provide specified treatment under the direction of ST, PT, OT ....Yet another reason to eliminate the "Assistant" Go Medical Practitioner!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believe Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 we do injections under fluoroscopy all the time in ortho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JMPA Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 On 1/23/2019 at 12:05 PM, MediMike said: Also, you may want to reset that link, looks like your personal info is still auto filled on there... lol thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator LT_Oneal_PAC Posted January 25, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 25, 2019 4 hours ago, JMPA said: lol thanks I had already removed the link and reset so it did not have your personal info but could still find the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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