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Physician shall skillfully perform and document those duties customarily performed by Family Practice physicians.
RENDERING PHYSICIAN'S DUTIES
The professional rendering provider's responsibilities, acting in cooperation with the Medical Director and Executive Director, shall include all duties:
(1) Establishing, reviewing and maintaining medical, dental or podiatric policies and standards, conducting the annual review of such policies, and presenting the policies to Health Center's Board of Directors for approval.
1. Supervising the Physician Assistants described in Exhibit C in compliance with the requirements of California Business & Professions Code §§ 3502 and 3502.1, and 16 C.C.R. § 1399.545, and that the Health Center is otherwise in compliance with therequirements of Part 491 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Physician shall execute a delegation of services agreement, review Clinic patient charts, and take all other actions necessary and appropriate to the supervision of such Physician Assistant's services.
2. Assuring the quality of medical, podiatric, or dental services provided to all patients treated by the clinic.
3. Reviewing and approving all protocols used by the clinic.
4. Establishing and implementing a system of peer review, pursuant to written procedures.
5. Reviewing credentials and delineating clinical privileges for the physicians, dentists, podiatrists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care providers, delivering services in the Clinic.
6. Ensuring that health personnel providing services on behalf of Health Center are qualified in accordance with current legal, professional and technical standards and shall be appropriately licensed, registered or certified where required, and that in addition to meeting the licensing, certification or other legal requirements, all health personnel are qualified by training and experience to perform those services they are assigned to provide.
7. If the Health Center provides drug distribution services, to ensure that each site has a current Clinic Dispensing License issued by the California Board of Pharmacy, and that the Health Center is otherwise in compliance with the requirements ofTitle 22 of the California Code of Regulations with respect to its dispensary.
8. Establishing, reviewing and maintaining medical or operational policies and standards appropriate to the services provided by Clinic, conducting an annual review of such policies, and presenting the policies to Clinic's Board of Directors for approval.
9. Ensuring that Health Center's health care personnel maintain full and complete medical records in a manner consistent with requirements under applicable procedure codes, legal and professional standards and Health Center's policies and procedures, including but not limited to, proper documentation of all patient visits and appropriate support and explanation for billing and claims to third-party payers, including Medicare, Medicaid and other governmental health care programs.
10. Ensuring that there is a providers working schedule and that each provider is in compliance with his or her working schedule
11. Ensuring that each provider is compliance with his or her productivity as agreed
12. Relief of providers' vacation and sickness.
13. Cover for Saturday operation from time to time
14. Agreed to precept mid level from institutional educations and the rotation of MD and DO
15. All others non billable duties but within the course and scope of patient care; signing death certificate, after hour call, immigration and EDD documents, sign health plan's agreement (all health plans) if needed on behalf of the said organization for its benefits, enroll patients to the said organization and assign patient to physician for care and among others.