New York/Collaborative Practice Law

[LookForward]

Hi,

I started working in a clinic and have a collaborative agreement with one physician. However, there are other physicians with their own panel of patients. May I work with these other doctors or do I work only with the physician I have the collaborative agreement with?

[Oldmahubbard]

Your collaborative person has to agree to "supervise" your care of all those other doctor's pts, if necessary, and good luck with that.

On a practical basis, it will never happen.

[djmatte, ADN, MSN, RN, NP]

A quick Google search found me this:

Many NPs work for 2 or more health care providers or at a facility with patients who are being cared for by several different physicians. SED does not necessarily require that the NP to enter into multiple collaborative agreements in such situations. For example:

If an OB-GYN NP works at an obstetrician's practice 3 days a week and at Planned Parenthood for 2 days a week, the NP could enter into a collaborative practice agreement with the obstetrician. The collaborative practice agreement could identify a physician (other than the obstetrician) at Planned Parenthood to review the charts of the NP's Planned Parenthood patients, or, alternatively, the obstetrician could review the NP's charts at Planned Parenthood. The NP is not required to enter into a second collaborative agreement.

If an NP works in a nursing home, the medical director may serve as the collaborating physician. In case of a disagreement between the NP and an attending physician, the collaborating physician could mediate the dispute and make the final treatment decision. It is not required that the NP has collaborative agreements with all of the attending physicians.

NYS Nursing:Practice Information:Collaborative Practice with Physicians

Those were just a couple scenarios. I don't work in NY, but while my collaborator owns the clinic, he isn't the pcp for every patient. So I see patients for a broad range of providers.