Governors: States Should Consider Easing Physician Assistant Limits

By John Wilkerson / September 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM
Governors suggest in a new report that states consider easing restrictions on physician assistants to help deal with swelling Medicaid rolls. The National Governors Association says states should consider including PAs in the definition of "provider," loosening so-called scope-of-practice laws to let physicians delegate more tasks to PAs, opening clinical training sites and encouraging PAs to work in primary care. "To increase the use of the physician assistant workforce, states should review the laws and regulations affecting the profession and...


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