Is an exam required before a patient can be treated in Ohio?
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Ohio ties the pre-treatment examination to the treatment type rather than imposing one blanket rule, and it pairs it with an unusually sharp duty running the other way: if something goes wrong, the physician has to see the patient personally.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
The rest of what Ohio says on this
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For photodynamic therapy, and for phototherapy for psoriasis, the physician must have seen and evaluated the patient to determine whether the proposed application is appropriate before it is delegated.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
Anyone to whom phototherapy or photodynamic therapy has lawfully been delegated must immediately report to the supervising physician any clinically significant side effect, or any failure of the treatment to progress as expected.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
On such a report the physician must see and personally evaluate the patient as soon as practicable. Ohio does not permit the complication to be managed at a distance by the person who caused it.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
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