Senate Panel Backs CPRIT, "Scope-of-Practice" Bills
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday expressed its support for a bill to reform the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the “scope-of-practice” bill that would increase the prescriptive power of advanced practice nurses.
Both bills now will now go before the full Senate.
The CPRIT reform bill, Senate Bill 149, restructures CPRIT’s leadership staff and establishes measures to prevent conflicts of interest between CPRIT officials, CPRIT grantees and the CPRIT Foundation, a nonprofit association that supplements the salaries of CPRIT officials. Senators on the committee also adopted an amendment to remove the Attorney ...
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JoEllen Wynne
I fail to see how Senate bill 406 will improve patient access to care, particularly in rural areas. NPs in these areas currently have difficulty finding physicians to "supervise" them. With the requirement of a monthly face to face meeting between physician and NP this will remain a problem. Increasing the ability for a physician to supervise more NPs seems to open up financial opportunity for physicians rather improve access to care for patients in underserved areas.