Nearly nine in 10 physician groups said who can deliver and lead patient care will be the top state health policy issue in ...

More than two-thirds of state medical societies say they plan to work on licensure issues in 2026, including adoption of the ...

Federal policy makers are examining regulations that require more-stringent supervision, or that limit providers from practicing at the top of their license. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

The physician lobby surveyed 64 medical societies and found that most of them were worried about nurses, physician assistants ...

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 ...

As noted in our March 31, 2020 blog article, “Strategies in Responding to COVID-19: Expanding Scope of Practice to Increase Patient Access to Healthcare” and in our May 8, 2020 blog article, “COVID-19 ...

Does expanding a hygienist's scope of practice translate to improved oral healthcare at the state level? Researchers from New York believe it does, according to the results of a survey published this ...

Cancer-Related Distress: Revisiting the Utility of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Thermometer Problem List in Women With Gynecologic Cancers We found 20 distinct scope-of-practice ...