Texas Medical Association SCOPE PAC

Working to stop efforts to expand scope of practice in any specialty

Medicine faces BIG challenges on several fronts from non-physicians

Last session, more than 60 bills were filed from health care providers who want to do what physicians do, but without a medical degree.

Texas needs a focused strategy to ensure physician-led care remains the gold standard. The Texas Medical Association SCOPE PAC was created to provide a way to concentrate resources for this one defining issue.

SCOPE in the News

Chiropractors Seek to Expand Scope, Reopening Decades-Old Fight.
Texas Medicine Today, May 22, 2026

Majority of Nurse Practitioners Satisfied with Physician-Led Health Care.
Texas Medicine Today, Feb. 26, 2026

Scope Creep Defense Preserves Physician-Led Care, Patient Safety.
Texas Medicine Magazine, September 2025

Education Matters

Physicians are trained to lead health care teams, with the highest level of education and 20 times more clinical training than nurse practitioners

Scope-of-Practice Expansion Does Not Solve Access-to-Care Shortages

Proponents frame scope expansion as the solution to care in rural Texas.
That is not the solution but instead puts Texas patients at risk
by lowering the standard of care.

Texas Medical Association SCOPE PAC

Working to stop efforts to expand scope of practice in any specialty

SCOPE in the News

Proponents frame scope expansion as the solution to care in rural Texas. That is not the solution but instead puts Texas patients at risk by lowering the standard of care.

Proponents frame scope expansion as the solution to care in rural Texas.
That is not the solution but instead puts Texas patients at risk
by lowering the standard of care.