When the number of insured people covered by insurance with affordable care is on the rise, the patient visits to hospitals will increase resulting in shortage of nurses and doctors.

The employment scene shows up as the Affordable Care Act and pressures by insurance companies and employers to control costs creates a shift away from fee-for-service payment of doctors to approaches that emphasize more accountable care.
Under the new models, primary care doctors are reserved for care – only after nurse practitioners and physician assistants see the patients and ensure that they are taking their medications and following doctor’s orders.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are also in short supply with hospital executives seeing a vacancy rate of 15 per cent, according to the AMN Healthcare survey.
“We are actively hiring and building up cores of physician assistants and nurse practitioners,” Gregory said.
Accountable care programs are here to stay and the insurer contacts medical care providers who are tied up with patient centered medical homes where the physicians encourage patients to get medical care from clinics and the doctor’s office because costs are lower than those of hospitals, especially emergency rooms.
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World News, December 2013
Source-Medindia