Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill May 13 stripping the requirement that nurse practitioners have to maintain career-long collaborative agreements with physicians.
According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, with the signing of the bill, Minnesota became the 19th state, plus Washington, D.C., to allow patients full and direct access to NP services.
"By signing Senate File 511 into law, [Minnesota legislators have] removed a needless regulatory bottleneck that better positions the state to meet existing and future healthcare workforce needs," said Angela Golden and Kenneth Miller, co-presidents of the AANP, in a news release.
The bill had passed the House 199-13 and unanimously passed the Senate.
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