More states are working out differences over what medical services non-doctors can provide in order to ease stubborn workforce shortages plaguing health systems. The pandemic prompted states to waive certain licensure requirements which allowed providers to more easily practice in other states or to expand the services they were allowed to provide to patients, including via telehealth. But making those temporary fixes permanent, and potentially giving health workers more autonomy over patient care, could conflict with the patchwork of state “scope of practice” laws.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/states-compacts-scope-practice-laws-workforce