New Mexico Register / Volume XXIX, Issue 6 / March 27, 2018

PUBLIC RULE HEARING AND REGULAR BOARD MEETING

The New Mexico Board of Osteopathic Medicine (“Board”) will hold a rule hearing and board meeting on Friday, May 4, 2018, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Regulation and Licensing Department, located at 2550 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM, in the Rio Grande Conference Room. Following the rule hearing, the Board will convene a board meeting to discuss and adopt the proposed rules and take care of regular business.

The purpose of the rule hearing is to receive public input on the proposed repeal and replace of the Board’s current rules pursuant to the Osteopathic Medicine Act that consolidated the Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery Act and the Osteopathic Physician’s Assistants Act. The proposed rules provide parts on definitions, licensure requirements, fees, continuing education, telemedicine, prescribing controlled substances, and discipline and a separate part addressing licensure and supervision of a physician’s assistant.

Summary of Proposed Rules:

16.17.1 NMAC - General Provisions

This part includes definitions and information on public records, information sharing, board election of officers, teleconference and change of information.

16.17.2 NMAC - Application for Licensure, Qualifications and Fees

This part addresses qualification and application procedures for all levels of licensure, including the new telemedicine license. All the fees are listed in this part.

16.17.3 NMAC - Renewal and Continuing Education Requirements

This part sets out the requirements for continuing medical education and renewal of licensure.

16.17.4 NMAC - Prescribing and Distribution of Controlled Substances

This part lays out the guidelines for prescribing controlled substances and using/registering with the prescription monitoring program.

16.17.5 NMAC - Revocation or Refusal of Licensure

This part sets out the disciplinary process.

16.17.6 NMAC - Reinstatement

This part defines the process for reinstatement of a license.

16.17.7 NMAC - Licensure for Military Service Members, Spouses and Veterans

This part sets out the process for expedited licensure for military service members, spouses and veterans.

16.17.8 NMAC - Physicians Supervising Pharmacist Clinicians

This part lays out the requirements for osteopathic physicians supervising pharmacist clinicians.

16.17.9 NMAC - Physician’s Assistants: Licensure and Practice Requirements

This part deals with physician’s assistants. It defines the requirements for physician assistant licensure when using a New Mexico licensed osteopathic physician as a supervising physician. It sets out the Continuing Medical Education requirements to be more in line with national standards, focuses on competency of the physician assistants, and allows for the designation of a temporary supervising physician.

To obtain and review copies of the proposed changes you may go to the Board’s website: http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/OsteopathicMedicine_Rules_and_Laws.aspx or contact the Boards and Commissions Division at 505.476.4622.

The Board is currently accepting public comments on the proposed amendments. Please submit written comments on the proposed changes to Roberta Perea, Board Administrator via electronic mail at roberta.perea@state.nm.us or by regular mail at P.O. Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504 no later than Monday, April 23, 2018. Persons wishing to present their written comments at the rule hearing will need to provide 15 copies of any written comment or proposed language change for distribution to the Board members and staff.

If you are an individual with a disability who is in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing, please contact: Roberta Perea, Board Administrator 505.476.4622.

Statutory authority for all the rules: Sections 61-10-5, 61-10-6.1, 61-10-11.1, 61-10-11.2, 61-10-15, 61-10-15.1, 61-10-19, 61-10-21; Section 24-2D-3 NMSA 1978; Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978.