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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

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Patient Education in Michigan

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MAY 28, 2025

I recently received the following request: [I am] reaching out to clarify whether performing inhaler use training and education to patients falls under the CMA (AAMA) scope of practice. This task would be ordered and billed by a rendering provider in the context of an office visit.

Patient Education

Patient Education Billing

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Pennsylvania Medical Assistants in Hospital Outpatient Departments

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

APRIL 30, 2025

I recently received the following question: In Pennsylvania, are [medical assistants] limited in their scope of practice when in [hospital outpatient department]based ambulatory sites? There is a question from our regulatory team about whether the [Department of Health] recognizes [medical assistants] despite their not being licensed.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Hospital Medication

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Credentials for Medical Assistants in New Jersey

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

APRIL 16, 2025

I recently received the following question: I am reaching out to seek your expertise and clarification regarding the scope of practice for Registered Medical Assistants (RMAs) who are certified through agencies such as American Allied Health, MedCA, American Registry of Medical Assistants, and NPCE.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication Certification

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The Impact of Misdemeanors for Ohio Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MARCH 26, 2025

I recently received the following question from an Ohio attorney: I represent a client who tells me that she is a licensed medical assistant in Ohio.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Does President Trump’s Executive Order Prohibit Licensing and Certifying Bodies from Testing on DEI?

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

President Donald Trumps January 21, 2025, Executive Order Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity orders all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector [diversity, equity, and inclusion] preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities. Does this executive order forbid testing bodies from including items about diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, justice,… Continue reading Does President Trumps Ex

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Tests

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Independent Clinical Judgement in Chart Preparation

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I recently received an email from a medical assistant in pathology requesting clarification on their scope of practice. Specifically, they wanted to know whether they could read a providers diagnoses and use that information to decide which documents they need to gather to prepare a patients chart.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Documentation Medication

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Assessment of Minnesota Medical Assisting Students

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

JANUARY 15, 2025

I recently received the following question: I am writing to inquire about [whether] a CMA (AAMA) [can] sign off on a medical assistant apprentices competency documents. Due to a shortage of medical assistants in the Duluth, Minnesota, area, we have agreed to offer medical assistant apprenticeship opportunities within our ambulatory clinics.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication Documentation

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Podiatrist Delegation to Illinois Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I recently received the following question: I am a practice manager of podiatry clinics in Illinois. My question is whether the Illinois laws permit podiatrists to delegate to medical assistants the injecting of substances, including a local anesthetic to numb an area for a procedure.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Indiana Medical Assistants as Surgical Technologists

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I recently received the following question from an Indiana medical assistant: I am looking into getting my surgical technologist degree, but I am wondering if I can use my medical assisting degree in the [operating room]. I have read some articles, but I am not seeing where it states yes or no.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Billing “Incident to” in Inpatient Facilities

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I recently received the following question: In researching the use of medical assistants in the Medicare Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, I came across your excellent talk in 2018 on YouTube.

Billing

Billing Long Term Care Medical Assistant Medication

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CMAs (AAMA) Training Other Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I received the following interesting and important question from a CMA (AAMA): I graduated from an accredited medical assisting program and am a current CMA (AAMA).

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Legality of Ohio Medical Assistants Compounding Medications

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I recently received the following question: [I am located] in Ohio. [I was] wondering if you have any knowledge/experience with medical assistants being permitted to compound medications (mixing 2–3 different medications together under the direction of a provider).

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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The Final Gainful Employment Regulations: What CAAHEP Educators Need to Know

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

AUGUST 29, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final regulations for the Financial Value Transparency and the Gainful Employment requirements that must be met for a program to participate in financial assistance programs for students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. These regulations went into effect July 1, 2024.

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Referring to Medical Assistants as Nurses: A Misdemeanor in Georgia

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

AUGUST 14, 2024

I recently received the following email: I have moved to Georgia, and I am encountering medical assistants being called nurses at almost all levels in this clinic. Medical assistants refer to themselves as nurses. The providers state, “My nurse will be back in to speak with you.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Permissible Injection Preparation by Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

JULY 17, 2024

I recently received the following question about California medical assisting law. I periodically receive this type of question about the laws of other states.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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U.S. Department of Education Gainful Employment Regulations

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

JUNE 13, 2024

The following question is from a program director of a Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)–accredited medical assisting program: We are in the process of trying to ensure that our medical assisting certificate program will adhere to the new program length requirements for gainful employment. Under this new federal regulation, certificate programs… Continue reading U.S.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Certification Medication

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Certified Nursing Assistants Working as Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MAY 31, 2024

I received the following question from a CMA (AAMA)®: I work in a state that does not have education or credentialing requirements for medical assistants. Our clinic is planning to hire certified nursing assistants to work as medical assistants.

Certified Nursing Assistant

Certified Nursing Assistant Medical Assistant Medication

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Permissible Tasks for New Jersey Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

APRIL 10, 2024

I received the following question from a CMA (AAMA)® who is also a surgical technologist: I am a CMA (AAMA) and am also certified in surgical technology in the state in which I am currently working. I am planning to move to New Jersey, a state that does not recognize surgical technology in its law.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Legally Delegable Tasks to Certified and Uncertified Medical Assistants in South Carolina

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MARCH 20, 2024

I recently received the following request for information from a medical group in South Carolina: We [need] to find out what tasks certified medical assistants can do and what uncertified medical assistants cannot do.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Permissible Medication Tasks for Credentialed Medical Assistants

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I recently received the following question: As a [credentialed medical assistant], am I allowed to change prescription medications (e.g., discontinue, stop date, different doses, new medication)? I work in the infusion room. My company started making infusion medical assistants responsible for this with no training.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Important Public Policy Update

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The American Association of Medical Assistants® (AAMA) Board of Trustees, other AAMA volunteer leaders, and AAMA staff salute all medical assistants on this 2023 Medical Assistants Recognition Day—October 18, 2023.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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A Department of Education Proposed Rule Could Impact Career and Technical (Including Allied Health) Education

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The United States Department of Education (USDE) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would impose new requirements on academic programs that “prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation,” which became final Oct. 31, 2023. This requirement encompasses allied health professions such as medical assisting.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Clarification of California Medical Assisting Law

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I recently received the following question: I have been reading and hearing conflicting information about whether California law requires medical assistants to be certified or licensed. Can you please clarify the California law for me? California medical assisting law can seem confusing. However, I am happy to explain it in understandable terms.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication

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Categorization of Medical Assistants in Various States

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MARCH 6, 2024

A medical assistant recently sent me the following email: I was curious about my scope of practice under the law of my state and went to your “State Scope of Practice Laws” webpage. I could not find anything in my state’s section that mentioned “medical assistants.

Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant Medication