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“Volume” of bills is 2025’s biggest scope of practice trend

The AMA fights for physician-led teams by harnessing the best evidence and collaborating with state medical and national specialty associations.

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Scope of Practice
Fighting for Physicians
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Effort to end doctor supervision of nurse practitioners fails

Mississippi legislation would have let nurse practitioners provide medical care independently after completing time-limited collaborative requirement. 

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Scope of Practice
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AMA in Action: Fighting scope creep
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Advocacy in action: Fighting scope creep

Inappropriate scope-of-practice expansions threaten patient safety. Patients deserve care led by physicians, and the AMA’s here to stop scope creep. Download PDFs of infographics.

Scope of Practice
Rebekah Bernard, MD
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Training gaps between physicians, nonphysicians are significant

Two MDs who previously worked as nonphysician providers say there’s no comparing the caliber of education—making physician-led care teams essential. 

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Erin Shriver, MD
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Seeing the risks of letting optometrists do eyelid surgery

Over a dozen states let optometrists wield a scalpel on the eyelid, opening up patients to missed cancers, unsafe procedures and more.

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Scope of Practice
Fighting for Physicians
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Dec. 20, 2024: Advocacy Update spotlight on scope of practice advocacy

Another big year for scope of practice advocacy and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update
Medical student studying
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How family nurse practitioners’ training comes up short

As nurse practitioners (NPs) push to practice without doctor supervision, research shows dearth of clinical experiences among family NPs before graduation.

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Nurse holding anesthesia mask in operating room
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Don’t muddy waters for patients with “nurse anesthesiologist” term

A proposed District of Columbia regulation would let nurse anesthetists use the moniker to describe themselves. That will confuse and mislead patients.

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Federal Advocacy
Fighting for Physicians
Two surgeons in an operating room
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How the AMA is fighting—and winning—for physicians at the state level

The AMA helped stop 80-plus scope of practice bills, pass 12 prior authorization reform measures, and led dozens of wins to support physician well-being.

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