Fierce Healthcare January 10, 2020
Physician assistants can help alleviate a shortage of providers in rural areas, especially if administrative barriers are eliminated.
When we, the healthcare community, talk about the lack of access to care in rural America, the focus is very often on physicians. Solutions tend to center around how to effectively recruit more physicians to practice in rural communities. That’s understandable, given that a study in The New England Journal of Medicine predicts the number of practicing rural physicians to fall by about a quarter by 2030.
However, to truly solve the rural access crisis, we need to consider every possible solution. While the number of rural physicians is important, equally important is the number of rural advanced practice providers such as...
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