PA and NP health cost savings at the VA

[Cheeni17]

Duke Professor Highlights Health Care Cost Savings for PA Patients at the VA

Medically complex patients who receive primary care from PAs can save up to $2,300 in total health care costs a year compared to physician patients, according to research presented by Perri Morgan, PhD, PA-C, with Duke University Medical School.

www.aapa.org

What’s y’all take on this. Mine is one of the following:
Physicians have bigger panels and patients couldn’t get in as much for visits they needed
It’s probably biased since a PA wrote it.
Patients of physicians probably were sicker and the study didn’t control for it well
More crap studies that convenieniently show NP PA are gods of healthcare yet this is never found in real life

Edit. It actually says that physicians had bigger panels and same staff to work with each group of patients. Going along with the fact the NP and PA patients had more visits this is probably the issue. Of course the midlevel lobby would post this as midlevels being super star superior to physicians. Of course you have more fing ER visits if you can’t see your PCP it’s like cmon we know dookie is a midlevel haven but don’t credit this as real research.


The study also convieniently has PAs edge out NPs slightly.


Lulz

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[LookForZebras]

If I decided to start a practice treating complex patients with diabetes, I would consider employing a PA or NP based on this study.