A lot of people don’t know the difference between a physician assistant and a nurse practitioner. You might visit either type of healthcare provider in a physician’s office even though they are not physicians. Many people have primary care providers that are NPs or PAs. But what’s the difference? In basic terms, a nurse practitioner…
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Nurse Practitioner vs Physician Assistant: What’s the Difference?
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Price Transparency in Healthcare
As we’ve talked about in our previous blogs on value-based healthcare and accountable care organizations, healthcare as an industry is facing big changes. To complete our trilogy on how the business of healthcare is changing for providers and patients, we are going to look at price transparency in healthcare. This is an issue that came…
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Tips for Recovering from Total Hip Replacement
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 300,000 total hip replacements are performed each year in the United States. That means a lot of people go through recovery after surgery. After surgery, your recovery will begin at the hospital, where you’ll be for 2 or 3 days. During that time you…