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Nonphysician providers are separated into (1) midlevel providers, which for our study are comprised of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, and (2) all other nonphysician providers, such as chiropractors, or physical and occupational therapists.

Impact of Recent Medicaid Expansions on Office-Based Primary Care and Specialty Care among the Newly Eligible

For example, in a remote clinic with an elderly patient complaining of intense abdominal pain accompanied by decreasing blood pressure, the midlevel provider who suspects an aortic aneurysm may immediately transport the patient to a hospital.

Who's really in charge? Physician assistants and nurse practitioners are common in health care facilities. But how much responsibility do they have? If a patient is injured, you need to find out who--the midlevel provider, the supervising doctor, the facility, or all of them--is responsible

Doctors also have agreements to supervise midlevel providers, who may be hospital employees.

The corporate hospital shell game: hospitals often use a maze of contracts to claim that negligent hospital-based physicians are independent contractors. But the law provides a basis for hospital liability

The role of midlevel providers in abortion care in the United States.

Non-physician clinicians can safely provide first trimester medical abortion

Physicians are permitted to perform menstrual regulation up to 10 weeks' amenorrhea and midlevel providers (family welfare visitors or paramedics) up to eight weeks' amenorrhea.

Acceptability and feasibility of mifepristone-misoprostol for menstrual regulation in Bangladesh

regarding, but not limited to, patient access, ethical issues, third-party payer reimbursement, legislative impact, midlevel provider relationships and statutes, and continuity and quality of care." It also asked the board to develop a model for a retail health clinic that will ensure continuity of care and a medical home.

Quick clinics: at a CVS near you!

Although the symposium is geared toward practicing dermatologists, midlevel providers, medical students and residents, it is open to any health professional or person who works with the skin and hair of people of color, including hairstylists and aestheticians.

Skin of Color Symposium set

In some states, midlevel providers still must see patients face-to-face before providing telehealth care.

Telehealth: States broaden options for locations, providers

Crane's organization proposes another option--what it calls a "third option"--that would allow physician groups led by a primary care physician and midlevel providers operating at the top of their licenses to contract directly with CMS as so-called "clinically integrated organizations."

WHERE DO ACOs FIT IN LIGHT OF CAPITATION?

In Arizona, the precedent is to reimburse midlevel providers at a lower rate.

Dental Therapists are making a difference in my practice and in my state

Fifty-four percent of women who presented for postabortion care were treated by physicians, and 46% were treated by midlevel providers (e.g., nurses and midwives).

The Severity and Management of Complications Among Postabortion Patients Treated in Kinshasa Health Facilities