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AAPM&R State Advocacy: New York Nurse Practitioners Seek to Remove Collaborative Arrangements with Physicians

May 17, 2021, 01:00 AM by User Not Found

On May 17, 2021, your Academy’s State Advocacy Committee released a call to action asking all members in New York to join AAPM&R and the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) in opposing S.3056-A/A.1535-A. The proposed legislative bills would eliminate statutory requirements for nurse practitioners to maintain collaborative arrangements with a physician practicing in the same specialty. The legislation would also eliminate the requirement for a newly practicing nurse practitioner to maintain a written collaborative agreement with a physician. Learn more about what your Academy is doing to defend physiatrists' scope of practice.