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Can a Nurse or Nurse Practitioner Be a 1099 Employee?

Empowered Nurses

Purchasing your own liability insurance. Covering benefits like health insurance and retirement savings. Under Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), signed into law in 2019, the state tightened the rules on who can qualify as an independent contractor. Locum tenens positions. Consulting in legal or healthcare settings.

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Nursing and the evolution of population health

American Nurse

In July 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law legislation to establish the Medicare and Medicaid programs about 20 years after President Harry Truman unsuccessfully tried to enact some form of national health insurance. A brief history of Medicare in America. cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2019/044-508.pdf

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

The EHR combined all pharmacy use by all patients in the complex care management department and calculated pharmacy costs on a per patient per month basis, which is the health insurance industry standard for capturing population health data. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 2020;368:m865.doi:10.1136/bmj.m865