The Situation: States have historically required close physician supervision of physician assistants, including, among other things, onerous chart review requirements, co-location of physicians ...

The ongoing expansion of responsibilities for physician assistants and nurse practitioners is renewing opposition from physician groups. Efforts to expand the roles of physician assistants and nurse ...

Florida's House of Representatives passed a measure that would allow doctors to increase the number of physician assistants (PAs) they supervise from four to eight, despite concerns from some ...

Physician assistants will return to Beacon Hill this year to advocate for the removal of “archaic” requirements that, they say, will make a difference amid the commonwealth’s primary care bottleneck.

Hundreds of current and aspiring physician assistants rallied inside the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday to support a bill that they say would help them ease the state’s primary care workforce ...

BOSTON — Dressed in white lab coats, nearly 200 physician assistant students and providers on Thursday pitched their potential to help solve a health care workforce shortage that could worsen given ...

The bill, SB 515 or the Collaboration and Rural Expansion of Services Act, would eliminate an existing limit of a 4 to 1 ratio of PAs to supervising physicians. Instead, the bill would allow PAs to ...