Carrier Management reviews WCRI's study "Advanced Practitioners and Workers’ Compensation Claim Outcomes" (Savych and Fomenko, 2025).

As the article notes, this "newly released decade-long study...indicates that claims initiated by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) didn’t lead to negative outcomes and suggested some benefits when compared to those led by primary care physicians (PCPs)."

You can read (or listen to) CM's article here.  For more on WCRI's study, including how to order copies, please visit the page on our website.

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