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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
Will you, as an NP, be able to suggest or order such testing?
I hope so, and I hope you end up working in a practice that respects your insights and experience in this area.
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I'm unclear on the technicalities of this. I know an NP can prescribe a blood draw for basic lab testing. However, all our specialty lab testing kits--the ones that have to be sent out-of-state to a proprietary lab rather than done at some walk-in place locally--have our supervising doctor's name on them. That may be an "across state lines" thing, a "more likely to get reimbursed by insurance" thing, or simply a "we get stacks of test kits pre-printed in advance, so they all get one name on them" thing.
The intention is most certainly that I will be working in a biomedical autism clinic in town. Currently there are two, but by the time I finish in several years, I expect those two will have expanded significantly (both have added new MDs in the last few months) and there may even be new independent clinics operating by then. For that specific test you're referring to, though, it's only really helpful pre-diagnosis, at least until more antiretroviral treatments have been researched. So it's unlikely anyone would come to me for it.