Physician Assistants (PAs), Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Others

PCPs might employ Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to:

  • Enable PCPs to concentrate on rendering advanced services
  • Have staff doing the right work at the right time, increasing the seamless operations of the office

Physicians can redefine their roles – specifically, by relinquishing elementary tasks to Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) and concentrating on more advanced ones.

The importance of having staff doing the right work at the right time so that operations are seamless and that some practices are experimenting with “Care teams”.  This includes having same day access, triage nurses, cross-training staff members, and aiming to improve outpatient care.

Make the most of your office staff:

  • Same day access
  • Triage nurses
  • Cross-training staff members
  • Aim to improve outpatient care

Education in proper use of billing codes is necessary.

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