Nie, non-medical wyklucza również pielegniarki, ratowników itp..:)

I. Introduction

In the current debate over reform of the healthcare system, the cost of care has become a major battle ground. An important issue in the battle is how to reduce the cost of care while maintaining quality and access to care for as many people as possible. Many studies of the components of healthcare cost have revealed that the cost of care rendered by physicians is a major contributor to the escalation of the amount of money spent on healthcare. This article will discuss an important, less costly but often overlooked addition or alternative to physician care—the use of nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) to provide care in a less expensive manner.

- See more at: https://www.healthlawyers.org/Members/PracticeGroups/PO/Page...

Among a raft of changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued this week, the agency controversially expanded its definition of the medical staff, allowing nonphysician practitioners to have privileges like other medical staff members. In an effort to cut some outdated requirements, CMS changed rules about medical staff oversight and roles.

"We have broadened the concept of 'medical staff' and have allowed hospitals the flexibility to include other practitioners as eligible candidates for the medical staff with hospital privileges to practice in accordance with state law," CMS said in the final rule. The explicit change now allows hospitals to give nonphysician practitioners, such as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists, the power to perform duties that they are trained for and allowed to do within their scope of practice and state law. If hospitals choose to do so, nonphysician practitioners could free up physicians to work on more medically complex patients, CMS said.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/cms-expands-medic...

Nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and physician assistants are health care
providers who practice either in collaboration with or under the supervision of a
physician. We refer to them as non-physician practitioners. States are responsible for
licensing and for setting the scopes of practice for all three specialties.

https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-00-00290.pdf