Applicants for Temporary Licensure Renewal

PURPOSE: This rule provides the requirements to apply for physician assistant temporary licensure renewal. (1) Physician assistant temporary licensees who fail the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistant Examination on their first sitting or who do not take the examination as scheduled may apply for temporary licensure renewal one (1) time. Temporary licensure renewal will be determined at the discretion of the board, on an individual basis. (2) Applicants for temporary licensure renewal are required to make application on forms prepared by the board. (3) No application will be considered unless fully and completely made out on the specified forms and properly attested. (4) Applications shall be sent to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, 3605 Missouri Boulevard, P.O. Box 4, Jefferson City, MO 65102. (5) The fee for temporary licensure renewal shall be an appropriate fee, to be established by the board. The fee shall be sent in the form of a cashier’s check or money order drawn on a United States bank and/or firm, payable to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts. No application will be processed until the temporary licensure renewal fee is received. (6) All applicants shall furnish an updated curriculum vitae detailing activities and employment since issuance of original temporary license. (7) Each applicant shall instruct the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants to submit the applicant’s admission letter for the certification examination; such letter shall specify the date the applicant is scheduled to take the certification examination. (8) Applicants applying for temporary licensure renewal due to failure of the certification examination, as determined by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, are required to inform their supervising physician, in writing, of the examination results. A copy of this notification must be submitted to the board with the licensure renewal application. AND INSURANCE (9) Applicants applying for temporary licensure renewal due to failure to take the certification examination as scheduled must show good and exceptional cause, verified under oath, as to the circumstances, which prevented the applicant/temporary licensee from taking the examination as scheduled. Good and exceptional cause shall include: (A) Death in the immediate family; (B) Illness documented by physician statement; (C) Accident; (D) Jury duty; and (E) Other exceptional causes as determined by the board. (10) Each applicant shall instruct the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants to submit the applicant’s certification examination results directly to the board. (11) The renewed temporary license shall be valid until the examination results are received by the board, not to exceed three (3) weeks following the mailing of the results by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. (12) The renewed temporary license will automatically terminate if the licensee fails the examination or does not sit for the examination as scheduled. (13) Temporary licensees may be issued permanent licensure upon successful passage of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Examination as determined by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants; submission/completion of all the requirements specified in rule 20 CSR 2150-7.100, an updated activities statement, the application form and application fee. (14) When an applicant has filed his/her application and the appropriate fee for temporary licensure renewal, and the applicant is deemed to be ineligible or denied by the board pursuant to the provisions of section 334.100, RSMo and/or rule 20 CSR 2150-7.140, or is subsequently withdrawn by the applicant, the fee will be retained by the board pursuant to the provisions of rule 20 CSR 2150-7.200. (15) The board may require an applicant for temporary licensure renewal to make a personal appearance before the advisory commission and/or board prior to rendering a final decision regarding temporary licensure renewal. (16) An applicant may withdraw his/her application for temporary licensure renewal anytime prior to the board’s vote on the application. AUTHORITY: sections 334.125, 334.736, 334.738, 334.742, 334.743 and 334.745, RSMo 2000 and sections 334.100, 334.735 and 334.749, RSMo Supp. 2007.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-7.310. Original rule filed July 25, 2000, effective Dec. 30, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-7.310, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Dec. 14, 2007, effective June 30, 2008. *Original authority: 334.100, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1959, 1963, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2004; 324.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995; 334.735, RSMo 1989, amended 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007; 334.736, RSMo 1995, amended 1998; 334.738, RSMo 1989, amended 1998; 334.742, RSMo 1989, amended 1998; 334.743, RSMo 1989, amended 1993, 1995, 1998; 334.745, RSMo 1989, amended 1996, 1997; and 334.749, RSMo 1996, amended 1998, 1999, 2001.