As reported previously, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA 2018) included a provision permitting physician assistants (PAs), beginning January 1, 2019, to serve as hospice attending physicians. This change affords patients whose primary care practitioner is a PA to receive the same continuity of care that has been available for patients served by nurse…
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