Can a physician assistant inject or prescribe in Delaware?
Oversight · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
Yes — a PA may prescribe, under a written collaborative agreement or, with 6,000+ postgraduate hours and granted independent practice authority, without one; injecting isn't named, so it turns on the scope set by the PA's education, training, and experience.
"Independent practice" means practice and prescribing by a licensed physician associate who is not subject to a collaborative agreement to the full extent of the physician associate’s education, training, and experience.
24 Del. C. §1770A(4) · verified Sep 3, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Delaware rules
It is the obligation of each team of physicians and physician associates to ensure that the physician associate’s scope of practice is identified, and is appropriate to the physician associate’s level of education, training, and experience, that the relationship of, and access to, the collaborating physician is defined, and that a process for evaluation of the physician associate’s performance is established.
24 Del. C. §1771(a) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Each physician-physician associate team, hospital, clinic, medical group, or other healthcare facility is responsible for creating a written collaborative agreement, which must be kept on file at the primary location where the physician associate provides care.
24 Del. C. §1771(b) · verified Sep 3, 2026
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