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The medical assistant-only model for primary care staffing may be the most cost-effective for practices relying on fee-for-service revenue, but the model will not be able to support value-based care and other sophisticated revenue arrangements, Premier recently reported.
In a new analysis of 2018 data from 257 family medicine and primary care practices, the healthcare improvement company found that 22 percent of practices used a medical assistant-only primary care staffing model, while 54 percent staffed with a combination of registered nurses or licensed practical nurses along with medical assistants, and 24 percent staffed with all three of the provider types.