Clinician type
Physician Assistants
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 220,301
- Per 100,000 residents
- 65.1
- Women
- 71%
- Median years since graduating
- 9
Who they are
- Women 71%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 2%
- Offer telehealth 19%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 95%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 6,798,206
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 5,952,327
- Destruction of precancer skin growth, 2-14 growths 4,022,686
- Destruction of precancer skin growth, 1 growth 1,255,035
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-44 minutes 1,079,201
- Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 965,381
- Aspiration and/or injection of fluid from large joint 919,180
- Subsequent nursing facility care with moderate level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 30 minutes 835,232
- Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes 760,483
- Biopsy of related skin growth, first growth 726,036
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes 699,754
- Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample 669,054
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 4.3%
- Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 2.9%
- Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 2.8%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 2.8%
- Lisinopril (Qbrelis, Zestril) 2.5%
- Omeprazole 2.1%
- Metformin Hcl (Glumetza, Metformin Er Gastric, Metformin Er Osmotic) 2.1%
- Losartan Potassium (Cozaar) 2.1%
- Metoprolol Succinate (Kapspargo Sprinkle, Toprol Xl) 1.9%
- Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen) 1.9%
- Rosuvastatin Calcium (Crestor) 1.8%
- Pantoprazole Sodium (Protonix Iv, Protonix) 1.6%
- Albuterol Sulfate (Ventolin Hfa, Proair Digihaler, Proair Respiclick) 1.6%
- Oxycodone Hcl (Oxycontin, Roxicodone, Roxybond) 1.6%
- Prednisone (Rayos) 1.5%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, MI 715 Physician Assistants at Spectrum Health
- Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 667 Physician Assistants at Cleveland Clinic
- Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 647 Physician Assistants at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Carolinas Medical Center/behav Health Charlotte, NC 635 Physician Assistants at Carolinas Medical Center/behav Health
- Adventhealth Orlando Orlando, FL 539 Physician Assistants at Adventhealth Orlando
- NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY 519 Physician Assistants at NYU Langone Hospitals
- St Lukes Hospital Bethlehem, PA 517 Physician Assistants at St Lukes Hospital
- St Luke's Regional Medical Center Boise, ID 482 Physician Assistants at St Luke's Regional Medical Center
- University of Colorado Hospital Authority Aurora, CO 478 Physician Assistants at University of Colorado Hospital Authority
- Hartford Hospital Hartford, CT 465 Physician Assistants at Hartford Hospital
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- University of Nebraska College of Medicine 711
- Duke University School of Medicine 613
- Eastern Virginia Medical School 554
- Emory University School of Medicine 545
- Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 462
- Yale University School of Medicine 449
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine 422
- Lincoln Memorial University Medical Department 420
- University of Washington School of Medicine 362
- George Washington University School of Medicine 351
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $86.8M in general payments to 93,839 clinicians in Physician Assistants in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).