Despite the CDPHE’s vagueness, we’ve learned that many the applications are being scrutinized because they were apparently completed by a physician’s assistant and only signed off on by a doctor.
Vincent Palazzotto, director of the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America, says one of the MMAPA’s doctors used physician assistants to perform the evaluations on about 800 patients for whom he subsequently signed recommendations — a practice that was permitted at the time by the CDPHE, he maintains.
We’ve received numerous e-mails from patients who went to Well Docs, where they were evaluated by physician assistants before a doctor signed the recommendation.
No word from the CDPHE when the issues may be resolved.
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