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Cleveland Clinic’s Virtual Emergency Medicine Program: Treating the Right Patients in the Right Place

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Origins and COVID-19 impact The program arose from Cleveland Clinic’s desire to leverage technology to make emergency care more accessible and from the healthcare system’s initial experience with a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment model called Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3). So we evolved to that model.”

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CMS 2023 Home Health Final Rule: What Agencies Need To Know

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The 2023 Home Health Final Payment Rule , which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released in October, increases Medicare payments for home health agencies by 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022. How will the 2023 final rule affect your business? While this seems like a treat, William A.

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Nurse Practitioners Are Primed to Help Bridge Physician Shortage

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An analysis conducted in June 2019 by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) confirmed this fact with metrics that projected a shortfall of up to 139,000 physicians by the year 2033. “NPs could obtain a business license and run their practice in ways that best serve their patient population.”.

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Can a Nurse or Nurse Practitioner Be a 1099 Employee?

Empowered Nurses

Understanding 1099 Employment for Nurses A 1099 employee, also known as an independent contractor, is not considered a traditional employee but rather a self-employed individual providing services to a business. The work performed is outside the usual course of the hiring entitys business.

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The Payoff of Wound Care Education: Get a Return on Your Investment

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Your business model revolves around competent clinicians, care quality, and reimbursements. When you invest in educating clinicians as wound care specialists, you can put your organization in a stronger business position by: Developing a team with clinical expertise in wound and ostomy care. Build Your Reputation as a Specialist.

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It’s a Long Way From Here to There: Advanced Healthcare Practitioners, EMTALA’s Call Coverage Requirements, and Rural Hospitals

Healthcare Law Insights blog

i] The distance between rural hospitals can be vastly further – in 2019, a National Institutes of Health study noted that hospitals in one rural state were generally at least 50 miles apart. [ii] A 2018 study found it took rural Americans, on average, 17 minutes to get to a hospital, but only 10 minutes in an urban center. [i] r); 42 C.F.R.

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

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It’s a really tough business right now,” said Mark Parkinson, president and chief executive of one trade group, the American Health Care Association. And federal enforcement of those rules is still years off. Bannister lost $430,524 in 2021, according to a financial statement it filed with Rhode Island regulators.

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