Optimal Team Practice Updates: On the Path to Full Practice Authority
A state-by-state breakdown of advances in Optimal Team Practice laws since January 2019.
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Full Practice Authority and Responsibility
Optimal Team Practice (OTP) is the current battle cry for PAs focused on the future of the profession. But before OTP, there was FPAR or Full Practice Authority and Responsibility. Sometimes these terms are used interchangeably. At other times, they seem to be in opposition. What is full practice authority, …
Optimal Team Practice: What it is and what it isn’t.
Over the last several years, states around the country have been updating practice laws and passing various elements of Optimal Team Practice or OTP. The most recent of those are Iowa and Maine, where in Maine for example, PAs working in a clinic or hospital where a physician is employed …
Pros and Cons of Optimal Team Practice
Optimal Team Practice, or OTP, is the term given to a 2017 policy supported by the American Academy of PAs that calls for, among other things, the removal of the state-level requirement for a physician to go on record as the supervisor of a PA.