Medical Economics September 18, 2023
Medicare data confirms trend of NPs and PAs treating patients as primary care physicians are in short supply.
Patient visits with nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) grew from 14% of visits in 2013 to 25.6% in 2019, according to a new study.
Physicians may be guiding medical care but increasingly NPs and PAs are the ones meeting with patients, according to new research in “Provision of evaluation and management visits by nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the USA from 2013 to 2019: cross-sectional time series study.” The report was published in The BMJ.
The researchers analyzed a sample of billing and prescription data from Medicare. They found in 2019, of more than 16.24 million patients with at...
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