Senators Work to Allow PAs to Serve as Hospice Attending Physicians

In recent weeks, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced legislation that would grant Medicare beneficiaries, upon election of hospice care, the right to select their physician assistants (PAs) to serve as their attending physician for purposes of hospice care.  Existing law limits choice of hospice attending physician to the patient’s physician or Nurse Practitioner (NP); NPs…