Nurse Practitioners Try Obamacare Workaround For Insurance Primary Care Roadblock

Nurse Practitioners Try New Tack To Expand Foothold In Primary Care by Julie Appleby.  September 8, 2013.

(1)  To insure expanded authority to deliver primary care, nurse practitioners are asking the Obama administration _____________________________.

(2)  Some insurers do not accept nurse practitioners into their ______________, while others restrict them to ______________.

(3)  Being credentialed in insurers' networks will allow nurse practitioners to _______________.

(4)  Insurers say that a _________________ complicates nurses' ability to practice primary care and bill directly.

(5)  Providing primary care without the supervision of physicians has been endorsed by the ______________.

(6)  Physicians groups say that, absent a team approach with physicians in the lead, patients will be ______________.

(7)  Since nurse practitioners undergo a shorter training time, their numbers ____________________.

(8)  About _____________ nurse practitioners run their own offices.

(9)  About ________ percent of 258 larger HMOs nationwide credential nurse practitioners as primary care providers.