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Nurse-practitioners push bill to align insurer coverage rules with full practice authority
Summary
The Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners asked lawmakers to update insurance statutes so plans recognize nurse practitioners' full practice authority, arguing outdated coverage rules force unnecessary physician involvement and delay care.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners urged the Joint Committee on Financial Services and Insurance to report H.1140 favorably to ensure insurers recognize nurse practitioners as independently authorized providers for coverage determinations now that Massachusetts grants full practice authority to eligible NPs.
Katharine MacKinnon, executive director of the coalition and a licensed nurse…
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