Can a physician assistant inject or prescribe in Maine?
Oversight · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
Maine repealed §3270-G(6)’s practice-agreement requirement on April 3, 2026. Below 4,000 documented hours, PAs still need collaboration or the specified credentialing system; Chapter 15 reserves prescribing to authorized prescribers.
The collaborative agreement, or, if appropriate, the scope of practice agreement, must be submitted to the board for approval and the agreement must be kept on file at the main location of the place of practice and be made available to the board or the board’s representative upon request. Upon submission to the board of documentation of 4,000 hours of clinical practice, a physician associate is no longer subject to the requirements of this subsection.
32 M.R.S. §3270-G(5) · verified Oct 23, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Maine rules
This section may not be construed to apply to registered nurses acting pursuant to chapter 31 and licensed physician associates acting pursuant to this chapter and chapter 36.
32 M.R.S. §3270-A · verified Sep 3, 2026
A physician associate with less than 4,000 hours of clinical practice documented to the board shall work in accordance with a collaborative agreement with an active physician that describes the physician associate’s scope of practice, except that a physician associate working in a physician group practice setting or a health care facility setting under a system of credentialing and granting of privileges and scope of practice agreement may use that system in lieu of a collaborative agreement.
32 M.R.S. §3270-G(5) · verified Oct 23, 2026
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