Expanding Roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants As Providers of Nonvascular Invasive Radiology Procedures

Although APPs perform a relatively small portion of commonly performed nonvascular invasive radiology procedures nationally, paid Medicare claims for those services have increased dramatically over nearly 2 decades, and at a faster pace than that for all providers as a whole. Given the multiple hurdles involved in obtaining Medicare reimbursement, that growth indicates increasing acceptance of APPs as procedure service providers at the institutional credentialing, state licensure, and payer policy levels.