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We additionally find that Medicaid expansion is associated with a 34.5% increase from 2013 in the probability of having an office-based midlevel provider visit, which may include some visits to nurses.

Impact of Recent Medicaid Expansions on Office-Based Primary Care and Specialty Care among the Newly Eligible

However, under the new arrangements and care models, midlevel providers provide more independent medical services, which will increase their own direct risk to medical malpractice cases as well as of the risks of those that are supervising and responsible for the care.

Double jeopardy: medical professional liability writers face dual challenges from the Affordable Care Act and efforts to amend tort reform

* Specialists depend on midlevel providers for monitoring and follow-up even in complicated medical cases, expecting them to alert the specialists to drug reactions, drug toxicities, and other complications that often exceed the midlevel provider's expertise.

Who's really in charge? Physician assistants and nurse practitioners are common in health care facilities. But how much responsibility do they have? If a patient is injured, you need to find out who--the midlevel provider, the supervising doctor, the facility, or all of them--is responsible

According to the Institute of Medicine, trained midlevel providers can deliver primary care services--from wellness and prevention services to the management of chronic disease--at least as safely and effectively as physicians.

Medication abortion restrictions burden women and providers--and threaten U.S. trend toward very early abortion

When the hospital, by its actions or inaction, leads patients to believe that a physician, therapist, or midlevel provider is employed by the hospital, courts have applied agency law principles to hold the hospital responsible for the provider's conduct, as if the provider were an actual employee.

The corporate hospital shell game: hospitals often use a maze of contracts to claim that negligent hospital-based physicians are independent contractors. But the law provides a basis for hospital liability

In September 2012, Washington State legislation passed "a supervised extender as an alternative to the dental midlevel provider legislation (AFDA)" as contemplated by other states.

Washington passes supervised extender legislation

Midlevel provider in menstrual regulation, Bangladesh experience.

Non-physician clinicians can safely provide first trimester medical abortion