65-2811a. Special permits; issuance; conditions and qualifications; limitations on practice; expiration of permit. (a) The state board of healing arts may issue a special permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts, under the supervision of a person licensed to practice such branch of the healing arts, to any person who has completed undergraduate training in a branch of the healing arts and who has not engaged in a full-time approved postgraduate training program.

(b) Such special permit shall be issued only to a person who: (1) Has made proper application for such special permit upon forms approved by the state board of healing arts;

(2) meets all qualifications of licensure except examinations and postgraduate training, as required by the Kansas healing arts act;

(3) is not yet but will be engaged in a full-time, approved postgraduate training program in Kansas;

(4) has obtained the sponsorship of a person licensed to practice the branch of the healing arts in which the applicant is training, which sponsor practices in an area of Kansas which is determined under K.S.A. 76-375 and amendments thereto to be medically underserved; and

(5) has paid the prescribed fees as established by the state board of healing arts for the application for and granting of such special permit.

(c) The special permit, when issued, shall authorize the person to whom the special permit is issued to practice the branch of the healing arts in which such person is training under the supervision of the person licensed to practice that branch of the healing arts who has agreed to sponsor such special permit holder. The special permit shall not authorize the person holding the special permit to engage in the private practice of the healing arts. The holder of a special permit under this section shall not charge patients a fee for services rendered but may be compensated directly by the person under whose supervision and sponsorship the permit holder is practicing. The special permit shall expire on the day the person holding the special permit becomes engaged in a full-time, approved postgraduate training program or one year from its date of issuance, whichever occurs first.

(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas healing arts act.

History: L. 1978, ch. 249, § 4; L. 1987, ch. 239, § 2; L. 1987, ch. 240, § 4; L. 2002, ch. 103, § 5; July 1.