Role of nurse practitioners in health reform is focus of new report

A new report by the National Institute for Health Care Reform digs into a topic of increasingly heated debate in health care — the role of nurse practitioners in addressing an anticipated shortage of primary care physicians.

The topic is one the Baltimore Business Journal has visited a couple times. You can read our previous coverage here and here.

To summarize, analysts predict the U.S. will need 52,000 more physicians in 2025 to meet growing patient demand, according to a study published in…