States Ease More Restrictions To Physician Assistants As Team Care Takes Hold

Forbes May 13, 2018
Bruce Japsen

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• 38 states and the District of Columbia allow PA scope of practice to be determined at the practice site
• “The PA profession has really reached a pivotal moment in its history,” American Academy of PAs CEO Jenna Dorn

More states are lifting restrictions and regulatory hurdles to allow physician assistants to work more “collaboratively” with physicians as the team-based approach to healthcare takes hold.

Historically, states have required physicians to more closely monitor physician assistants (PAs) in what some have said led to redundant tasks or slowed the ability of patients to get the care they needed in a timely fashion.

But physician assistants — like nurse practitioners — are successfully convincing...

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