The New Jersey Legislature approved S2996/A4052, which authorizes independent practice authority for APNs/NPs in primary care and behavioral health, eliminating longstanding physician collaboration requirements in all practice settings. If Governor Sherrill signs...

The Ohio House Medicaid Committee has scheduled a hearing and potential vote on House Bill 508, a troubling bill to remove physician collaboration requirements from the law for Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs). This bill would grant an APRN, who is a certified nurse...

As recently reported in the ACEP 911 Weekly Update, executives from the largest health insurance companies in the country were recently summoned by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Committee on Ways and Means for back-to-back hearings examining affordability...

As you have witnessed first-hand and heard from your emergency physician colleagues around the country, hospital emergency department (ED) boarding has become a national public health crisis. "Boarding" is a scenario that occurs when patients are held in the ED following...