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midlevel provider

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mid·lev·el provider (mdlvl)
n.
A medical provider who is not a physician but is licensed to diagnose and treat patients under the supervision of a physician.

midlevel provider
Managed care A health care provider–eg, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, etc, whose activities are directed and/or dictated by a supervising physician on whom liability for those activities rests


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Using midlevel providers Expect non-physician providers (NPP), typically, to reach 80 percent of physician volumes, although their growth will be slower than for physicians.
By December of 2006, all physician and midlevel providers were using MedAptus, processing approximately 3,000 outpatient charges per week.
Numerous obstacles to the provision of abortion services exist including: * Barriers to involving midlevel health providers in safe and Legal abortion services--with limited trained medical doctors, majority of eligible women easily access the services of midlevel providers.
 
 
 
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