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Committee hears from providers and stakeholders on licensure compacts for PAs and dental professionals
Summary
The committee considered bills to join interstate compacts for physician assistants and for dentists/dental hygienists. Supporters said compacts improve workforce mobility; licensing boards and others raised administrative and oversight questions.
The House committee received testimony Feb. 20 on measures that would allow Oregon to join interstate licensure compacts for health professionals, including physician assistants (PA compact) and dental professionals (dentist/dental hygienist compact).
Tom Holt, representing employers including Zoom Care and the Oregon Health Leadership Council, urged support for the PA compact as a workforce tool to ease interstate licensing for PAs and to allow clinicians to begin work more quickly when they move across…
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