The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in July that “physician assistants are precluded by statute from performing EMG needle tests.” This ruling was the result of a case involving a physician billing for EMG studies performed by a physician assistant. The court relied heavily on the legislative intent of the statutory language added in 2005 that limits performance of needle EMG to a “person licensed to practice medicine and surgery” in New Jersey.
As a result of this case the AANEM Board of Directors considered the organization’s policies regarding non-physician providers and voted to add specific language to the organization’s Recommended Policy for EDX Medicine and its Model Policy for EMG and NCS.
Those policies are available at http://www.aanem.org/.
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Please provide the specific language change and the policies which were changed.
Arthur Taub, MD PhD
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