Movement Expected on NP Independent Practice This Fall
Bills allowing for the unsupervised practice of medicine by nurse practitioners may move in the state House as early as this fall. The House Health Policy Committee held three hearings on House Bill 4399 in the spring. MSMS and its allies effectively highlighted the complexity of the issue and raised concerns among lawmakers, but have since learned that legislators may still move forward with the bill, potentially adding extra training hours as a compromise. However, this proposal continues to sacrifice patient safety and quality of care in ways that will never be acceptable to MSMS.
We know it’s dangerous legislation that could have severe consequences for patient outcomes and access to quality care. In other states, these measures consistently fail to improve access to care, fail to enhance quality of care, and fail to reduce costs. In short, they fail across the board, and patients are the ones who suffer.
We need your help to ensure that does not happen here in Michigan. Contact your lawmakers today and urge them to OPPOSE House Bill 4399 and Senate Bill 268, which sacrifice the physician-led care team.
Michigan’s patients deserve the very best when it comes to their care or the care of their loved ones, and there’s only one way to ensure that happens: The patient-centered care model, led by physicians and supported by the best-trained and most qualified care team members. This is the proven approach that ensures all Michigan patients receive the kind of quality care they expect and deserve.
Congress Must Protect Telehealth
Congress will need to act by the end of September 2025 to extend pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities, such as the removal of geographic and originating site restrictions. The American Relief Act of 2025 (HR 105450) approved by Congress at the end of 2024 extended the waiver of the geographic, site of service, and practitioner type restrictions; thereby, allowing Medicare patients in non-rural areas and in their homes, to continue to get telehealth services through September 20, 2025. Let your representatives know that it is time to either extend or make permanent these telehealth flexibilities that patients have become accustomed to over the past several years.