PLLC: PHYSICIANS & PHYS. ASSISTANTS S.B. 26 (S-2)-28 (S-2):
FLOOR SUMMARY
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Senate Bill 26 (Substitute S-2 as reported by the Committee of the Whole)
Senate Bill 27 (Substitute S-2 as reported by the Committee of the Whole)
Senate Bill 28 (Substitute S-2 as reported by the Committee of the Whole)
Sponsor: Senator Tony Stamas
Committee: Health Policy
CONTENT
Senate Bill 26 (S-2) would amend the Public Health Code to do the following:
-- Require supervising physicians who organized a professional service corporation or a professional limited liability company (PLLC) with physician's assistants (PAs) to meet applicable requirements of the Code, beginning on the bill's effective date.
-- Extend the requirements to physicians supervising PAs who, before the bill took effect, organized a professional service corporation or a PLLC that had only PAs as shareholders or members.
-- Require the Department of Community Health to include on the license renewal form a space for a PA to disclose whether he or she was a shareholder in a professional service corporation or a member in a PLLC organized before the bill took effect.
-- Require a PA who was a shareholder or member to disclose in the license renewal form whether any physicians were shareholders or members; the name and license number of the supervising physician; and whether the supervising physician was a shareholder or member in the same professional service corporation or PLLC as the PA.
Senate Bills 27 (S-2) and 28 (S-2) would amend the Professional Service Corporation Act and the Michigan Limited Liability Company Act, respectively, to do the following:
-- Include services rendered by a physician's assistant in the definition of "professional service".
-- Allow physicians to organize a PLLC with other physicians licensed under the Public Health Code.
-- Allow physicians to organize a professional corporation or a PLLC with PAs.
-- Prohibit physician's assistants from organizing a professional corporation or PLLC that would have only PAs as shareholders, beginning on the bills' effective date.
MCL 333.17048 (S.B. 26) Legislative Analyst: Julie Cassidy
450.222 & 450.224 (S.B. 27)
450.4902 & 450.4904 (S.B. 28)
FISCAL IMPACT
The bills would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 3-11-10 Fiscal Analyst: Elizabeth Pratt/Maria Tyszkiewicz
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb26-28/0910