News
November 24, 2010
Florida NPs Offer Potential Solution for Rising Health Care Costs
The Sunshine News recently reported on an ongoing debate waging in Florida – how to contain costs of the state’s $14.7 billion Medicaid program. Florida's nurse practitioners say they could save the state $1 billion and create new jobs if they were allowed to practice as they do elsewhere. The NPs cite Tennessee’s managed care model for Medicaid as an example – where utilization of NPs cut costs by 23 percent when NPs were used as full-scope, primary care providers, according to a Vanderbilt University study. Florida is one of only two states that severely restricts their scope of practice. To read the full article, click here.
