 okay what's up you guys so I've had this question asked to me and I'm honestly to be quite honest asked this question to myself a lot as well over the course of becoming a PA and learning about the PA profession and the question is can we as PA's own and operate our own practice so that is what I'm going to be talking about in today's video what's up you guys welcome back to my channel so as you heard we are going to be talking about ownership practice ownership and PA ownership what it means to own your own PA practice if that's even a possibility how do you go about doing that and finding out that information if it is a possibility we're going to be hitting all of those various different topics in this video but the question came from Benafir Benafir I hope I don't know I might have budgeted but so go and she asked thanks for your answer can a PA start their own clinic or telemedicine practice or doesn't depend on the state so I'm saying or she's probably saying or does it depend on the state if so which states allow that thank you all right so great question it's a question that I know a lot of you know pre-PA students and just people that are interested in health care in general and PA's have you know can I own my own practice can I start my own practice and I know some of you that may not be familiar with the PA practice are like well why is that even a question you know you guys are practitioners you're prescribing medicine you're seeing patients um you operate similar to like an NP or a physician so why would you not be able to start your own practice and the reasoning that there's so much like concern or confusion about it is because we are dependent practitioners um and what I mean about that is in our delegation agreements which we have to have delegation agreements there is supposed to be a physician that is our attending or supervising physician or collaborating physician um all of these terminologies change from you know and vary from state to state but essentially PA's were made to assist physicians right like that's what the profession was made for to help with like carry the burden of the physician and see patients and and do all of that while um at the same time you know providing care great so that's what the profession started off as it has obviously involved evolved to so much more but with that being said we are still technically dependent providers across the united states and therefore what that means is that we need to have a supervising physician so with that being said if there is a need for a supervising physician how can you own your own practice and that is really the question that most people have so the short like the longest shorter the answer is yes PA's can own their own practice there are several PA's that own their own practice their own clinics um and there are different types of clinics like urgent care um there's like weight loss clinics there are you know sports medicine clinics orthopedic clinics that I've seen that that are like satellite clinics that PA's own and run there are family medicine clinics there are Derm clinics that PA's run so there there are lots there you can you can own your own clinics and I've seen obviously some of those PA's transition into telemedicine um because they already have their own practice in and of itself like prior to um moving into the virtual space so yes yes PA's can yes yes yes we can absolutely own our own practice um but with that being said there are some various different stipulations and kind of loops that you have to run through and jump through and that is where it can get confusing and discouraging um and that's where you kind of have to put the work in so APA has like a great article about what it means to be um have like ownership as a PA and own your own practice and what essentially goes into all of that so you can always go to APA's website and look at business ownership from the PA standpoint you can just search that and the article will come up uh but really in truly you kind of have to go to your state your respective states border medicine to see exactly what they say in terms of the regulations because like I said there are states where you don't you're not um you're not a you're not supervising like you don't need a supervising physician but you need a collaborating physician or um somebody that is like participating and the terminology is different and because the terminology is different that means the scope of practice and the scope of supervision that is needed or required can vary because that that language is different so in terms of the states that I know of for sure like Florida is on that list Maryland is on that list Washington state California Arizona um those are some of the states that I know because I just kind of did my research on that really quickly so I know that you can own your own practice in those states now doesn't mean that you actually want to live in any of those states maybe not and so if you're in a state that I did not name then you have to go like I said to your state's board of medicine and actually look to see what the regulations are and what the stipulations are with respect to PA ownership now some of the things that kind of come into play with that is how are you going to be billing with respect to insurance companies and there's like a whole other slew of things with respect to Medicare and Medicaid and all of those different um really getting paid aspect of things and so you're going to have to source through all that that information but if you are really interested in this and this is something that you want to do you want to own your own clinic you want to own your own practice whatever it may be whatever specialty it may be in then you really have to do the work and so ultimately the answer is yes PA's can own their own practice there are several PA's that do and have own their own practice for years but you just have to do the research and figure out what exactly that means and then kind of just get it done um so it's something that I will probably look into later on down the line right now I'm still getting my feet wet as a baby PA as I like to call myself you know just kind of figuring things out but uh PA ownership but especially when it comes to telemedicine that's a no-brainer I get to stay home and you know see patients and still assist them and help them in that way that's like that's easy right that's like a layup so for sure um absolutely it's something that I think anybody who is about uh that business mindset should look into uh you just have to do the research okay thank you so much for this question it was great um like I said go to APA's website to check out what they have on PA ownership go to your state's board of medicine's website to see what the regulations are there's also like a telemedicine website that I will leave in the description box below for you guys as well so you can if you're interested in that you can see specifically like what some of the regulations with respect to help telehealth and telemedicine might be um and then you can also just google and you know go on youtube and you know subscribe to channels like mine and others uh so that you can get information on ownership and what that means to be a PA owner as a business owner all right thank you guys so much for watching if you have any other questions for me please leave them in comment section below go ahead and like this video um go ahead and subscribe to my channel follow me on instagram edit on the pa and on instagram I get that's the university thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time