Forbes

Direct Primary Care: Value Proposition, Scope of Practice and Pricing

This article is a section of a longer paper on Direct Primary Care (DPC) that was introduced in an earlier piece -- Health Plan Rorschach Test: Direct Primary Care. The following excerpt from that ...
Health Affairs

Frequency Of Indirect Billing To Medicare For Nurse Practitioner And Physician Assistant Office Visits

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represent a growing share of the health care workforce, but much of the care they provide cannot be observed in claims data because of indirect ...
ung.edu

Scope of Practice and Confidentiality

Enhance, support, and maintain the emotional health, development and well-being of the University of North Georgia students; Inform, advise and support, in its areas of expertise, those involved with ...
California Healthline

Should California Expand Providers’ Scope of Practice?

This month, state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, plans to introduce legislation that would expand the scope of practice for mid-level health care providers ...
Nature

Scope of practice: a statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)

This document defines the Scope of Practice for the primary specialty of Medical Genetics. It serves as a revision of a 2008 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) Policy Statement ...
Health Affairs

Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers In Managing Chronic Diseases And Could Improve The Value Of Care

Scope-of-practice regulations, including prescribing limits and supervision requirements, may influence the propensity of providers to form care teams. Therefore, policy makers need to understand the ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Keeping Up With Pharmacists’ Changing Scope of Practice Amid COVID-19

A panel discussion examined the changes in the health care landscape occurring due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly around pharmacists’ scope of practice, and which ...
HealthLeaders Media

More States Pushing for Autonomy in Scope-of-Practice Battle

Allowing autonomy for advanced practice practitioners continues to be contested state by state. At the beginning of this year, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ...
Forbes

It's Time To Take Aim At Scope-Of-Practice Laws

"Many state lawmakers understood the benefits of temporarily relaxing these restrictions as COVID-19 strained the healthcare system," writes Sally Pipes. "Freeing up physician assistants and nurse ...
The Advocate

Letters: Bill would not change scope of practice for nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives

A letter published on May 4 misrepresented and inaccurately described the consequences of House Bill 495. This bill would give nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives full practice authority ...
California Healthline

Scope-of-Practice Bills Proceed, Pause

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. The Assembly Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer ...