Regional scope of practice and hospital readmission

Alicia Plemmons and Agnitra Roy Choudhury

Applied Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 30, issue 2, 185-189

Abstract: One in six people who are hospitalized in the United States will be readmitted within 30-days of initial discharge. We investigate expanding the scope of practice for nurse practitioners and regional readmission rates. Using Census region data on readmission rates, we determine the effect of a member state expanding nurse practitioner job autonomy with the probability of an individual being readmitted to the hospital. We find that there is an approximate one percent reduction in readmissions within a Census region when a state expands scope of practice to allow for some or all tasks to be performed without a supervisory or collaborative agreement. We find no evidence of increasing readmissions when nurse practitioners’ scope of practice is expanded.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1980486

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