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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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Nurse Practitioners Are Primed to Help Bridge Physician Shortage

Nurse.com

territories, with full practice authority legislation (FPA) that empowers nurse practitioners to provide the complete scope of services for which they were trained. Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP- BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN, President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), in a news release.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

According to “The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition,” claims again nurse practitioners (NPs) are rising. To find out what this means and what NPs can do about it, Daily Nurse interviewed Georgia Reiner, MS, CPHRM, Risk Analyst, Nurses Service Organization (NSO).

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Can a Nurse or Nurse Practitioner Be a 1099 Employee?

Empowered Nurses

As healthcare professionals, nurses and nurse practitioners often find themselves navigating a maze of employment arrangements. With the rise of telehealth, staffing agencies, and healthcare consulting opportunities, the question arises: Can a nurse or nurse practitioner work as a 1099 independent contractor?

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It can be tough getting a GP appointment. Nurse practitioners could take some of the load

Nursing Review

Nurses make up more than 50% of the health workforce and have untapped and under-used skills that would ease the skills gap in our health system. Within this group, nurse practitioners have advanced training and the potential to deliver more services than they’re currently allowed – without the oversight of a GP.

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How to Get Started as a Nurse Advocate Around Key Issues Like Scope of Practice

Amercan Journal of Nursing

National Council of State Boards of Nursing map of Nurse Licensure Compact states. This happened to me as a nurse practitioner after moving to a new state. I didn’t realize how drastically different each states’ Nurse Practice Act could be in terms of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) scope of practice.

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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.