The effects of expanded nurse practitioner and physician assistant scope of practice on the cost of Medicaid patient care

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• 作者：Edward Joseph Timmons ^{etimmons@francis.edu}
• 关键词：Occupational licensing ; Occupational regulation
• 刊名：Health Policy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：121
• 期：2
• 页码：189-196
• 全文大小：973 K
• 卷排序：121

文摘

Allowing physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances reduces outpatient care cost. This reduction is quite large, ranging from 11.8% to 16.0%. This change is not associated with any changes in care intensity.