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  • Urology
  • Healthcare Workforce
  • Practice Management

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  • Projected physician shortage of 65,000 by 2025 highlights critical need for healthcare professionals.
  • Urology faces severe workforce challenges, including a high average urologist age (52.5 years) and low per capita ratio (3.89).
  • In 2018, 72.5% of urologists utilized advanced practice providers (APPs), who constituted 41% of full-time equivalent medical staff.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide an updated consensus statement on the role of APPs in urologic practice.
  • To examine APP integration from regulatory and practice management perspectives.
  • To offer guidance on inpatient utilization, procedural data, and compensation for APPs.

Main Methods:

  • Review and update of the 2015 consensus statement.
  • Formation of an ad-hoc group of urological providers by the American Urological Association (AUA) board.
  • Analysis of regulatory, practice management, inpatient utilization, procedural data, and compensation aspects of APP integration.

Main Results:

  • APPs are increasingly utilized in urology to mitigate workforce shortages.
  • The document addresses efficient incorporation of APPs into urologic practices.
  • Key areas covered include regulatory considerations, practice management strategies, inpatient use, procedural involvement, and compensation models for APPs.

Conclusions:

  • The AUA endorses a physician-led, team-based approach utilizing APPs under supervision.
  • APPs significantly contribute to the care of patients with genitourinary diseases.
  • Encourages the proper and efficient use of APPs to enhance urologic care delivery.