What is a primary role of risk management in PA supervision?

• A. Identify and mitigate risks, implement safety protocols, promote reporting and corrective actions, and monitor outcomes
• B. Increase billing compliance
• C. Limit access to records
• D. Remove supervision entirely

Answer: (A)

Risk management in supervision focuses on minimizing patient harm and legal risk by building a system that identifies potential dangers, puts safety protocols in place, encourages reporting of errors and near misses, and uses data to drive corrective actions and measure their effectiveness. In practice, this means setting standards for safe care, training team members, and continuously monitoring how changes affect outcomes so that problems are prevented or quickly addressed. This holistic, ongoing loop—identify, intervene, report, learn, and reassess—best captures the primary role of risk management in supervising PAs. The other options are narrower or inappropriate: billing compliance is important but not the core function of risk management in supervision; limiting access to records is a security measure that doesn’t address the full risk-control process; removing supervision would undermine patient safety and the risk-management framework.