PAs - An important part of your marketing strategy?

Physician Assistants practice medicine as a team with their supervising physician

• Exercise autonomy in medical decision making
• Provide a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic services, including performing physical exams, taking patient histories, ordering and interpreting laboratory tests, diagnosing and treating illnesses, suturing lacerations, assisting in surgery, writing prescriptions in all 50 states, and providing patient education and counseling
• May also work in educational, research, and administrative settings

3 Reasons Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore PAs

1) Prescribing authority - PAs write more than 225 million prescriptions a year.

• PAs have prescriptive privileges in 50 states, of which 46 allow for prescription of controlled substances

2) PAs play a crucial role in patient care

• PAs provide more than 183 million patient visits a year
• PAs make hundreds of millions of OTC recommendations a year
• Many PAs practice in medically underserved areas (rural and inner city)

3) PAs are an increasingly important part of the healthcare team

• The PA profession has grown from a handful of graduates in the 1960’s to more than 80,000 in clinical practice today
• 4,600 PA students graduate every year from 141 PA Schools
• 45% of PAs work in primary care
• 25% of PAs work in surgery and surgical specialties
• PAs are often the front-line in patient care and may be the sole health care provider in a community