The number of nurse practitioners in New York has more than quadrupled between 2000 and Jan. 1, from 8,948 to 41,160, according to the state Education Department, which licenses the profession.

The American Medical Association (AMA), which represents more than 200,000 member physicians, opposes relaxing rules that require physician assistants and nurse practitioners to practice under the ...

The Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, And Pharmacist Pipelines: Continued Growth Edward S. Salsberg May 26, 2015 Doi: 10.1377/forefront.20150526.047896 ...

Physicians: Primary care physicians earned an average of $242,000 in 2021, according to Physicians Thrive’s 2022 “Physician Compensation Report.”This was a decrease from 2020’s average of $243,000.

A stay-at-home mom for 10 years, Martha Tuff wanted a career in medicine. But at 38 and raising four boys, she decided the decade-long preparation to become a doctor “would be too much for me ...

Over the past 40 years, UC Davis’ family nurse practitioner and physician assistant program had 1,800 graduates, with 67 percent of them working in rural and other areas lacking health-care resources.

Agarwal said the findings suggested that relying more on physician assistants and nurse practitioners can be a safe alternative for the health care system, without a decline in quality of care ...

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants will be indispensable to our healthcare system long after the pandemic passes. More than 6.6 million Floridians have insufficient access to primary ...

However, a medical resident, a physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or other non-physician practitioner may act as a proxy for the ordering practitioner provided they are authorized under ...