PAs write more than 10% of all prescriptions, and over 77% are responsible for meeting with pharmaceutical representatives - many as the primary contact. Each year, PAs write more than 250 million prescriptions, provide more than 170 million patient visits, and make hundreds of millions of OTC recommendations.
Recent News:
Department
of Labor issues new regulations for implementation of the Family Medical
Leave Act. The AAPA concerns were applied in the new regulations regarding
the clarification of PA authority. They also allow employers to contact
medical care providers for clarification of their certification of medical
necessities. Military families will now be covered under FMLA. The regulations
can be viewed here.
( http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-2062.pdf).
3/08
Michigan PAs celebrate new Blue Cross Rules, allowing for the first time
for PA services to be billed at 85% of the physician's fees. This ends
a 20 year effort to have Blue Cross recognize PA services. (Now Michigan
PAs can adopt a new goal: To Match Arkansas's recent Act
128 of 2007, part of which ensures physicians receive full reimbursement
of health care services performed by a PA.) 12/07
What are the seven ideal physician behaviors, according to patients? Confident,
empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful and through. (Patients'
Perspectives on Ideal Physician Behaviors, J Med Lic and Dis 2007 93(4):24-27.)
It
is the patient who carries the burden of illness, but the compassionate
physician
shares that burden, lifting it
when possible and lightening it when that is all that can
be done This sharing of the burden has always been the hallmark of the
medical profession.
- Richard Hollis, M.D.
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