Each year, more and more business owners tell us that surprising and exorbitant out-of-network medical bills from facilities called freestanding emergency rooms are taking up a larger chunk of their health care budgets.
Despite growing evidence and a body of research showing favorable patient outcomes and excellent quality of care in states where advanced practice registered nurses have full practice authority, Texas still prevents them from doing what they can do and what patients desperately need. As a result, Texans who could be treated by an APRN have no care at all.
