A 9148: Relates to the use of fluoroscopy by physician assistants.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9148 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY October 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the use of fluo- roscopy by physician assistants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3501 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. "Fluoroscopy" means an x-ray based technique that allows contin- 4 uous real-time imaging of an instrument, dye, or body part during a 5 diagnostic or treatment procedure so that location and movement of such 6 instrument, dye, or body part can be detected and evaluated. 7 § 2. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 3502 of the 8 public health law, as added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2006, are 9 amended, and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows: 10 (c) only persons licensed under this article shall practice radiogra- 11 phy, radiation therapy or nuclear medicine technology or use the title 12 "radiographer," "radiologic technologist," "radiation therapist" or 13 "nuclear medicine technologist" or use the abbreviations LRT, RTT, LRTT, 14 NMT, or LNMT with [his or her] their name; [and] 15 (d) notwithstanding paragraph (c) of this subdivision, quality control 16 tests and radiation therapy treatment planning may also be performed by 17 individuals not licensed by this article[.]; and 18 (e) a licensed physician assistant may engage in the use of fluorosco- 19 py for guidance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; provided that 20 the physician assistant has successfully completed an educational 21 program consisting of at least forty hours of didactic and forty hours 22 of clinical training with successful completion of a competency exam, as 23 approved by the department. 24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 25 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 26 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 27 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 28 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00639-01-5