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Benefits of Using Advanced Practitioners
If you could increase the productivity of your physicians, make your patients happier, and increase your bottom line, would you? Of course you would!
For this article, primary care and subspecialty practices were surveyed. The responses echoed one another. Advanced practice providers take care of routine office visits, overflow patients, help with call, and free up a physician's time to care for patients who require a physician. This is a 'win-win' for the practice, physician, advanced practitioner, and patients.
Advanced practitioners, specifically nurse practitioners and physician assistants, can take medical histories, perform physicals, diagnose and treat illnesses, prescribe medications, order labs and X-rays, educate patients, and take call. They can handle the routine medical visits allowing physicians more time to treat patients requiring a higher level of care.
By having an advanced practitioner in your practice, patients who may have to wait 4-6 weeks to see a physician can see a nurse practitioner or physician assistant the same week. Knowing they can receive prompt medical care, patients are more apt to return to the practice. Advanced practitioners are not only valuable to the physicians by freeing up their time, but they also allow the practice to increase the volume of patients seen daily.
Collections generated by an advanced practitioner can be double their annual compensation or more. And, malpractice premiums are substantially less for these providers compared to malpractice coverage for a physician.
The benefit of using advanced practitioners within a practice is three-fold:
- Saves physician time and increases their productivity
- Patients are happier because they can be seen sooner
- Revenue to the practice increases and has a positive impact on the bottom line
If you would like to begin utilizing advanced practice providers in your practice, please contact us.
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