The changes for critical healthcare activities, which the CMA opposes, allow each facility to decide who among 30 categories of licensed healthcare providers can do which task.
However, the state dropped proposed changes that would have weakened medical staff self-governance and mandated that clinical psychologists be granted medical staff membership in private hospitals.
Read the California Medical Association’s release on scope of practice.
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