Practice authority for physician assistants (PAs) includes the legally required relationship that a PA must have with a physician or other health care provider in order to practice or prescribe. Some states require a PA to be supervised by a physician or other health care provider to practice and prescribe. In some states, collaboration with a physician or other health care provider is allowed for practice and prescriptive authority. In other states, PAs can practice or prescribe without supervision or collaboration once certain requirements are met.
The map below indicates the supervision requirements for practice and prescriptive authority for PAs.