In response to the trend of more doctors performing procedures outside their specialty, a number of state legislatures are looking to reexamine the rules surrounding what physicians can and can't do, ...

Florida House Bill 449 would allow optometrists to perform eye surgeries, despite their lack of medical degrees and surgical training. Opponents of the bill emphasize the vast difference in education ...

Allowing autonomy for advanced practice practitioners continues to be contested state by state. At the beginning of this year, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a trying year, one unintended benefit was that the Florida legislature allowed pharmacists to further expand their scope of practice to help patients with certain ...

CMS seeks to remove regulatory friction around how clinicians practice and move across state lines as part of its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. The agency explicitly incorporated ...

As it stands, there is no statutory or centrally-backed guidance outlining how physician associates should work in general practice. Given the variety of potentially conflicting views, Eliza Parr ...