So what do you wish more people understood about why these arrangements exist?

So, you know, there is certainly a lot of dialogue around these types of relationships in the varying state laws.

Our purpose at CollabDocs is to help support these clinicians launch and establish their practices with the regulations that exist.

But the purpose of these regulations is really patient safety and shared expertise.

So there's a lot of states moving from fully restricted practice to transition to practice, which means there's a pathway to autonomy after an NP has a certain number of years of experience.

And so those first few years are meant to be a mentorship, sort of a type of residency, if you will, where you are able to ask questions and learn from your collaborating physician.

But collaboration itself adds value where every clinician is able to get a second opinion when they need it.

So if someone is an NP or PA and they're thinking about going independent or joining a practice, where should they start?