The health care industry is in a period of dramatic change. The uninsured rate is rapidly dropping; physicians are joining group practices in record numbers; medical cost inflation has slowed; and now ...

Physician assistants are so in demand to treat the nation’s newly insured patients they are coming close to primary care physicians as the health professional most in need at U.S. hospitals and health ...

Background and goal: Medical assistants (MAs) are among the fastest growing occupations within the U.S. primary care workforce, and many practices have expanded the roles and caregiving ...

Janice Cohen, of Boynton Beach, refused to wait another four weeks to get an appointment with her primary care doctor. When offered a visit with a physician assistant, she reluctantly agreed. The ...

If you set foot in the emergency department in Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., you’ll probably see a physician assistant. As per state law, AMC is allowed to staff its emergency room ...

Some states are implementing innovative ways to help address the shortage. Missouri, a state with a large, medically underserved rural population, is the first state to launch a new licensure category ...

Physician assistants will return to Beacon Hill this year to advocate for the removal of “archaic” requirements that, they say, will make a difference amid the commonwealth’s primary care bottleneck.

Every physician assistant practicing today owes the profession's existence to combat medics and Navy corpsmen who proved that ...