Huge leap for PAs in Texas

[mkacal1]

Texas state board has allowed PAs to enter into practice buying with physician/groups and has also allowed PAs to be part of a professional association with them. NPs ARE NOT AFFORDED THIS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. This is a HUGE and i mean tremdously HUGE advancement for PAs like myself.

[Acebecker]

From up here in the Northwest, it has seemed like PAs are doing pretty well in your state - we have seen dozens of jobs advertised for PAs for opening in anything from Emergency Medicne, to pain clinics, to Pulmonology, etc. Good on ya! Now - just take it to the national level and you'll all be heroes.

Andrew

[PAMAC]

http://nurse-practitioners-and-physi...-Practice.aspx

[PAMAC]

that is cool, though. being a business partner rather than an employee probably prevents a lot of getting screwed.

[jmj11]

Texas state board has allowed PAs to enter into practice buying with physician/groups and has also allowed PAs to be part of a professional association with them. NPs ARE NOT AFFORDED THIS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. This is a HUGE and i mean tremdously HUGE advancement for PAs like myself.

Who deserves the credit in this? Who are the heroes that we should thank? Was the TAPA or an independent group or even the AAPA?

[GeneValgene]

From up here in the Northwest, it has seemed like PAs are doing pretty well in your state - we have seen dozens of jobs advertised for PAs for opening in anything from Emergency Medicne, to pain clinics, to Pulmonology, etc. Good on ya! Now - just take it to the national level and you'll all be heroes.

Andrew

texas rocks!

hook 'em

[Joelseff]

Where is the "Like" Button???

You go Texas!!!!

I hope we get more GOOD news about the PA profession...

[quantumleap_21]

Hey guys just came across this thread. I am a Pre-PA and hope to start PA school in August of this year. So what are the benefits of being a partner in a practice. Can someone please elaborate what the benefits are for us pre-pa and pa students. I would assume that your income potential would be higher if you were a partner.

[jmj11]

Hey guys just came across this thread. I am a Pre-PA and hope to start PA school in August of this year. So what are the benefits of being a partner in a practice. Can someone please elaborate what the benefits are for us pre-pa and pa students. I would assume that your income potential would be higher if you were a partner.

The authority to be part of the decision making process. You also share the profits AND risks more directly.

I am the owner. ALL decisions rest at my feet. I make or break the practice. But, if we are short on money, I (as the captain of the ship) am the first one not to get paid. But if we ever make a good profit, I will be the first to benefit.

[wdtpac]

I'm sorry but HB2098 is a huge leap backwards for PA's in Texas!!!! I have been a managing member/owner in a successful clinic in Texas for several years and now this law has taken several rights away from us!!! This spin about it being good for PA's is propaganda from an impotent physician assistant special interest group that spends more time defending the TMA's/TMB's actions then that of their own kind. I strongly advise PA's from all US states read the bill in its entirety to see specifically what has been done.

And as an aside, the NP's laughed at this rediculous proposition and walked away saying, "no thanks!!!!".

[Joelseff]

I'm sorry but HB2098 is a huge leap backwards for PA's in Texas!!!! I have been a managing member/owner in a successful clinic in Texas for several years and now this law has taken several rights away from us!!! This spin about it being good for PA's is propaganda from an impotent physician assistant special interest group that spends more time defending the TMA's/TMB's actions then that of their own kind. I strongly advise PA's from all US states read the bill in its entirety to see specifically what has been done.

And as an aside, the NP's laughed at this rediculous proposition and walked away saying, "no thanks!!!!".

I just read about hb2098, i agree its a step back. When i posted kudos on here, i was under the impression that in tx PAs had no partnership rights at all. This hb2098 puts tx with cali which limits ownership of a practice. But wdtpac, it states if your entity was formed prior to june 17, 2011 you would be under the old law.

http://www.tmb.state.tx.us/professio...edEntities.php


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[wdtpac]

Joel, you are partially right. However, after the legislation was passed, the TMB sent out an "addendum" to the law, requiring all PA's and MD's in this type of business relationship to register each year with them in order to indicate any corporate changes in the business. Further, they indicate that if the current supervisory relationship ends (ie the physician dies or quites), then the business entity must follow the new statute. So, since with the new law a pa or corporate entity cannot hire a MD to collaborate, AND a pa cannot own more than 49%, AND a pa under the new statute cannot have voting rights, then the "pa owner" that had those rights under the previous "grandfathering" will be forced to sell or surrender not only their rights as owners, but TANGIBLE BUSINESS ASSETS AND GOODWILL!!!

Can you say land snatching!!!!!

[wdtpac]

I'm sorry for that caps, but this move by the TMB is most heinous, distastful, and criminal IMO, and I am really trying to press to my PA and NP collegues that we are being taken advantage of.

[Joelseff]

Joel, you are partially right. However, after the legislation was passed, the TMB sent out an "addendum" to the law, requiring all PA's and MD's in this type of business relationship to register each year with them in order to indicate any corporate changes in the business. Further, they indicate that if the current supervisory relationship ends (ie the physician dies or quites), then the business entity must follow the new statute. So, since with the new law a pa or corporate entity cannot hire a MD to collaborate, AND a pa cannot own more than 49%, AND a pa under the new statute cannot have voting rights, then the "pa owner" that had those rights under the previous "grandfathering" will be forced to sell or surrender not only their rights as owners, but TANGIBLE BUSINESS ASSETS AND GOODWILL!!!

Can you say land snatching!!!!!

This royally sucks! It's the same for us in Cali.

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[marilynpac]

IL is getting real bad....NPs and PAs are now slowly being replaced by APNs.......my husband and I have decided to relocate OUT of IL when he retires and I have no regrets of leaving...in fact I may leave b/f he does....