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Nurse practitioners ask lawmakers to update insurance rules to match full practice authority
Summary
The Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners told lawmakers that insurance statutes still require physician involvement for some coverage decisions despite NPs gaining full practice authority in 2020; they asked the committee to report bills that would align insurance requirements with current NP scope of practice.
The Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners asked the Joint Committee on Financial Services to update state insurance statutes so that insurers recognize nurse practitioners with full practice authority as the provider of record for coverage determinations and orders.
Katharine MacKinnon, executive director of the coalition, said that although…
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