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The one-hour nurse visits that let insurers collect $15 billion from Medicare

Health Leaders | Nursing

A Wall Street Journal investigation of insurer home visits found the companies pushed nurses to run screening tests and add unusual diagnoses, turning the roughly hourlong stops in patients’ homes into an extra $1,818 per visit, on average, from 2019 to 2021.

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For richer, but not for poorer: how Australia’s mental health system fails those most in need

Nursing Review

Mapping inequity We first examined federally funded Medicare mental health services, largely provided under the Better Access initiative , to establish how equitably – or not – these are distributed. In 2019, if all people with the most need had equal access to mental health care, on average, each person would receive 12 services.

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Better Nurse Staffing Linked to Fewer C-Sections

Daily Nurse

Their responses, collected in 2018 and 2019, were matched with hospital-level administrative data and rates of C-sections and vaginal births. The evidence-based standards call for one nurse to one birthing person during many parts of labor, two nurses at birth, and one nurse for each mother-newborn pair in the first few hours after birth.

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Public hospitals performing more elective surgeries than ever before

Nursing Review

million in 2019-20 to 8.8 Health Minister Mark Butler told ABC Adelaide last week that, Things are still very tough in the healthcare system, as they are right around the world, after a decade of cuts to Medicare, the fact we are a population getting older and sicker, and the impact of Covid. million in 2023-24).

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Patients With Dementia Face 2x Risk of Dying After ICU Discharge

Daily Nurse

Mortality and Discharge Location of Intensive Care Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia examines data from a large, geographically diverse sample of patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. which covers the period from 2016 to 2019. ADRD and comorbid conditions were identified from claims.

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New Weight Loss Drugs Carry High Price Tags and Lots of Questions for Seniors

American Nurse

Because Medicare doesn’t cover weight loss medications and they can cost more than $10,000 a year, seniors’ ability to get the new drugs is restricted. There is an exception: Medicare will cover Ozempic and Mounjaro if an older adult has diabetes, because the insurance program pays for diabetes therapies. “We

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In December 2019, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) reported that 290,000 NPs were licensed to practice in the United States. Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States.