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PROVIDERS AND SERVICE DELIVERY

You have been appointed as the administrator of a multi-specialty clinic. The board of directors has decided to consider adding the services of non-physician providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners. You have been assigned the project of developing a cost benefit analysis of how adding these providers will prove to be of value to the existing physicians.

What must you include in this cost/benefit analysis? Why?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of any two of your peers. Point out items in your peers' cost benefit analysis which they may have left out and explain why these items are important. Also, discuss from a patient's point of view, how this change might benefit you in terms of cost.

Respond to this question using available resources from your text, the Capella University library, and the Internet. Make sure to include the source citations and references for any outside sources used. This reply should be in approximately 250–400 words and in APA format.