Bloomberg Businessweek Writers Publish Second Installment in Series: The Nurse Will See You Now.

In their second story on the topic, Bloomberg writers explore “how the increasing reliance on ill-trained nurse practitioners is imperiling US patients.”

The writers cover what they term “a sea change in America’s hospitals, where the number of NPs, and the amount of responsibility they’re asked to shoulder, is rapidly growing.” An important motivation for hospitals is the increased profit they can make from this change. The story mentions that “A primary care physician costs $344,308 a year, whereas a primary care NP costs about $156,546… Yet primary care NPs can generate $424,979 of direct revenue a year, only $37,000 less than a physician. Put another way, NPs are twice as profitable.”

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