The physician assistant (PA) profession was created decades ago to address a shortage of primary doctors. The profession has grown, but physician shortages persist. A dozen states have passed ...

The bills adopt the compact's model legislation governing, among other things, requirements for member states participating in the compact, qualifications for member-state PAs seeking to exercise the ...

For decades, physicians and nurses who ventured across state lines to practice, particularly in locum tenens roles, have reaped the benefits of medical licensure compacts. Yet, the same courtesy has ...

Durham, NC, May 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New research shows a vast majority of North Carolina voters support policies that expand access to health care. By large majorities and on a bipartisan ...

SANTA FE — For more than 20 years, New Mexico has only been a member of one interstate medical compact — an agreement dealing ...

On March 18, Arkansas became the 14th state to join the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact. With the passing of SB 101, licensed physician assistants in Arkansas will soon be allowed to practice in ...

A coalition of health industry leaders is backing a policy it says would help stop the statewide hemorrhaging of health care workers — allowing certain out-of-state professionals to practice in Texas.

Jessica Britnell oversees nurse practitioners and physician assistants in Mass General Brigham’s nine emergency departments. Hospital clinicians, Britnell said, often run into a problem, which is that ...

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 ...