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Read. Follow. Verify.Ohio HB 963 revises laws governing physician assistant practice, prescriptive authority, and clinical collaboration
Last action · June 10, 2026: Referred to HealthSponsors: Kellie Deeter and 1 other
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What This Bill Would Do
Ohio HB 963 modernizes and reorganizes statutes governing physician assistants (PAs), shifting their administrative framework from traditional "supervision agreements" to "s" and expanding their authority in areas such as direct insurance billing, psychiatric document signing, and specific controlled substance prescribing. The bill amends numerous sections of the Revised Code to align PAs with other advanced practice providers.
Changes professional compliance, billing rights, and practice authorities for physician assistants, healthcare facilities, and supervising physicians across Ohio, directly impacting how patients access medical services, insurance reimbursement, and specialized care.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Physician Assistants
Physician assistants experience changes to their practice framework, moving from supervision agreements to collaboration agreements, alongside new provisions for direct insurance billing and psychiatric documentation.
Collaborating Physicians
Physicians who work with physician assistants must enter into collaboration agreements and fulfill updated collaborative oversight responsibilities.
Health Plan Issuers
Health benefit plan issuers are required to provide payment or reimbursement to physician assistants for covered services equivalent to other providers.
Medicaid Recipients
Patients utilizing Medicaid may receive care billed directly by participating physician assistants through established provider agreements.
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Can physician assistants now bill insurance directly under this bill?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jun 10, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred to Health
- Jun 9, 2026HouseIntroducedIntroduced
Version history
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Transition from Supervision to Collaboration
The legislation systematically replaces the terminology and legal structure of "supervision agreements" with "collaboration agreements" for physician assistants across numerous sections of the Ohio Revised Code.
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Sources
www.legislature.ohio.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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