“Allowing well-trained APRNs to handle routine care frees up physicians to focus on diagnostic dilemmas and more complex management issues while dramatically reducing waiting times for care,” Dr. Rowe wrote in an Atlantic editorial. “Expanding nursing scope of practice not only can help fill the gap in primary care providers, but it can save money as well. RAND estimates that in Massachusetts, using nurse practitioners to their full capacity could save the state between $4.2 and $8.4 billion over ten years.”
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