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Summary
There are many factors driving health care reform, including unsustainable costs, poor outcomes, an aging populace, and physician shortages. These issues are particularly relevant to neurology. New reimbursement models are based on value and facilitated by the use of multidisciplinary teams. Integration of advanced practice providers (APPs) into neurology practice offers many advantages with new models of care. Conversely, there are many and varied challenges financially and logistically with these practice models. The American Academy of Neurology has formed a Work Group to address the needs of both neurologists and neurologic APPs and monitor the effect of APPs on quality and cost of neurologic care.
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Approved by the Advanced Practice Provider Work Group on April 20, 2014, by the Practice Committee on January 24, 2015, and by the AANI Board of Directors on February 17, 2015. Approved as a position of the AAN by the AAN/AANI Board of Directors on June 16, 2015.
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