A provider is any one who provides healthcare services. Doc Nurse Practioner, PA, counselors, psychologists, chiropractors, anyone who is actually provides services, either covered or uncovered by insurance.
I have to wonder if the term “provider” is being used as a way to show a doctor that he or she is on the same level as a nurse’s aid.
Notice the subtle shift in meaning. “Provider” is just a passive vessel through whom healthcare from the gummint flows. Damn libturds already getting the vocabulary squared away.