California NP scam is only getting worse

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Ratio of new NPs to Psychiatrists: Must be minimum 6:1. Anyone have data on this?

NP Fact Sheet

There are more than 385,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) licensed in the U.S. 1 More than 39,000 new NPs completed their academic programs in 2021-2022. 2 88.0% of NPs are certified in an area of primary care, and 70.3% of all NPs deliver primary care. 3 83.2% of full-time NPs are seeing Medicare…

www.aanp.org

325k practicing, 4.7 in mental health so ~ 15k.

36k graduated NP programs last year. Working with those rates- so maybe 1600 went into mental health?

I think we'd need to know the number of recent PMHNP enrollees but also how many actually go on to practice mental health or work as an NP at all since that isn't always a guarantee.

A total of 1,537 U.S. senior medical school graduates—1,205 from allopathic and 332 from osteopathic schools—matched into psychiatry residencies during this year’s National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). That’s up from 1,473 last year.

Additionally, 367 international medical graduates and other applicants also matched into psychiatry, bringing the total to 1,904 medical school graduates. Only three positions went unfilled.

In 2018, there were 30,451 active psychiatrists.

Psychiatric News

psychnews.psychiatryonline.org

https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NAE_PsychiatristShortage_V61.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjb16Wszcv0AhX5jIkEHT4CDE0QFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1xueyWBdKDxvFUJ183KO4M

 

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I work with a few good NPs. Definitely less training than a psychiatrist but they ask for help when needed.

All of them see only physicians for their own care.

The nps I see in private practice have a collaborator physician who is over 90 miles away who has many nps he is collaborating with throughout the state. So in other words, no help at all. And they don't care.
I treat np and they know the physician takes the hit.