Daily Nurse

JULY 31, 2023

The American Nurses Association (ANA) underscores the urgency for Congressional leaders, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and other key stakeholders to advance efforts in implementing safe staffing standards , including minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When I was 21 years old, pregnant, and on Medicaid, I arrived at the hospital in labor. June 22, 2022. Studies consistently demonstrate that racial and ethnic minorities experience poorer health outcomes, higher rates of chronic disease, and reduced access to quality healthcare compared to their White counterparts. 2024; 19(2).

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Empowered Nurses

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In it, 335,000 registered nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses surveyed in 2022. For the first time ever, centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have proposed new staffing regulations for long term care facilities. That survey found that one in four nurses intended to leave the profession in the next four years.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

In April 2022, New York and Kansas granted FPA to NPs. She notes that four states moved to full practice authority through the pandemic: Delaware and Massachusetts in 2021 and New York and Kansas in 2022. Now, patients in more than half of the states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In April 2022, New York and Kansas granted FPA to NPs. She notes that four states moved to full practice authority through the pandemic: Delaware and Massachusetts in 2021 and New York and Kansas in 2022. Now, patients in more than half of the states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. Maintaining Momentum.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, rates of chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension continue to rise among women of childbearing age (Health in Rural Missouri Biennial Report, 2022-2023). The second federal policy is Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension (passed in Missouri 7/2023).

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Consult QD

JANUARY 19, 2024

She and her colleagues analyzed locations of neurologist practices from the 2022 Care Compare database of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and locations of MS centers as defined by the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers. Their objective was to compute spatial access to these locations for all U.S.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Spring 2022’s Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) reported that nearly $3 billion had been misspent on Medicare and Medicaid services. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (2022, June 6).

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Scrubs

JUNE 22, 2023

In all cases, the majority were Medicaid enrollees. States across the rural Southeast have not expanded Medicaid coverage to larger numbers of lower-income residents, which often means lower shares of patients have health coverage. South Dakota voters adopted Medicaid expansion in late 2022 and will implement it this summer.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

OTs working in home health can initiate the start of care in more situations beginning in 2022 under changes to the Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs). There’s a new opportunity for occupational therapists practicing in home health settings.

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Medicare Holistic Care Medicaid Communication 97

American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Spring 2022’s Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) reported that nearly $3 billion had been misspent on Medicare and Medicaid services. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (2022, June 6).

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Medicare Medicaid Federal healthcare Education 52

Consult QD

APRIL 6, 2023

Here are their findings in summary: Those in distressed communities were more likely to be Black and Hispanic, listed as Status 1A and have Medicaid insurance. In an analysis cohort of 5,293 pediatric heart transplant patients, researchers assessed the clinical outcomes of White, Hispanic and Black patients at each quintile.

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Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations

MARCH 8, 2024

CMS (2022) created rural emergency hospitals (REH) as a separate provider designation effective January 1, 2023. Hospitals within a rural area with not more than 50 beds or that closed after December 27, 2020, can seek designation as a REH as long as they meet the conditions of participation to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. While this seems like a treat, William A. The final rule includes a 4.1% net inflation rate update.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Prior to the pandemic a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pilot study yielded positive results with respect to hospital readmission rates and follow-up emergency department visits. Barring Congressional action, this waiver is set to expire at the end of the Public Health Emergency , which CMS recently indicated would be in July 2022.

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American Nurse

MAY 8, 2023

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/index.html Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Data transparency aids care quality improvement.

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Relias

AUGUST 15, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes a decrease in Medicare reimbursement for home health agencies by 4.2% CMS estimates that this move would decrease reimbursements by about $810 million compared to 2022 projected reimbursements. Adjusting PDGM Calculations Based on Data. Mandatory Telehealth Reporting.

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Consult QD

MAY 8, 2023

3 Who to enroll in a lung cancer screening program : Guidance from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has contributed to policy from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other payors for who should be screened. link] Published November 2022. 2021;4(4):e218559. Lung-RADS® v2022.

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Best Practices Medicaid Medicare Communication 87

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In April of 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that nurse practitioners with more than 3600 hours of clinical experience have full practice authority and are no longer mandated to have any contract with physicians to practice. There are many outdated laws or policies, particularly Medicare and Medicaid.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Affordable Care Act mandated that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) establish risk categories for Medicare enrollment, which are used by CMS to determine what level of scrutiny to give provider enrollment applications, which includes initial enrollment, change of ownership (“CHOW”) applications, and revalidations.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 25, 2022

On March 23, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice in the federal register announcing a limited re-opening of the comment period regarding OSHA’s final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19. Contact us.

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American Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

2022: Expanded definition, proposed model Levine and colleagues acknowledged the difficulties still surrounding the concept of skin failure, including no conceptual consensus across clinical entities and no common recognition by all providers and regulatory bodies. The prevalence of pressure ulcers in an intermediate care facility.

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Long Term Care Malpractice Nurse Practitioner Medicaid 105

American Medical Compliance

MARCH 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services investigates these cases and prioritizes protecting patients. Reference United States Department of Justice (20 July 2022). Others controlled telemarketing schemes in order to target elderly Medicare patients to consent to tests by misleading and deceiving them. course today.

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IntelyCare

JANUARY 10, 2023

The RAI process is also a federal requirement from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as outlined in section §483. Reimbursement The facility’s state Medicaid reimbursement is calculated using the MDS assessments produced from the RAI process. It is a reproducible assessment of each resident’s functional capacity.

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Medicaid Medicare Mental Health Licensing 52

American Medical Compliance

DECEMBER 26, 2023

On December 27, 2020, the United States Congress adopted the No Surprises Act (NSA) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which has various provisions to assist in protecting customers against unexpected costs beginning January 1, 2022. The following course highlights the NSA and how it impacts healthcare.

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Capitol Beat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) entitled Make Your Voice Heard: Promoting Efficiency and Equity Within CMS Programs. These recommendations also support ANA’s legislative advocacy as we encourage lawmakers to support H.R.

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American Nurse

JULY 2, 2024

ACNA became an organizational affiliate of ANA in 2022. Yes, it affirms that cannabis has medicinal value, but it doesn’t make it more affordable for Medicaid patients, for instance.” To guide nurses in their practice, ANA has partnered with ACNA to publish Cannabis Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 27, 2024

CMS Coverage Decision for Continuous Glucose Monitors On February 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made a significant determination, classifying both non-adjunctive and adjunctive Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) as Durable Medical Equipment (DME).

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American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Geriatrics ECHO data consist of information from September 2019 to May 2022; the Nursing Home STRONG ECHO, from November 2020 to September 2022 (which includes Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ] COVID-19 Action Network ECHO sessions held from November 2020 to August 2021).

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Long Term Care Leadership Nurse Practitioner Medicaid 87

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides federal oversight of care quality in all U.S. hospitals that receive Medi­care and Medicaid funding. Hospitals that accept patients with Medicare or Medicaid insurance (approximately 61.4 Doi: 10.51256/ANJ072339 Reference Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Medicaid Medicare Promotion Leadership 52

American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

One way to reframe and reclaim the purpose and value of nursing is to address and elevate the intellectual, clinical, ethical, and relationship aspects of our discipline (Wolf, 2022). Gassas and Salem (2022) conducted a comprehensive integrative review to identify factors affecting the development of professional values. & Boz, I.

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Health Outcomes Medicaid Medicare Nurse Educator 52

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. The act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes, follow state laws related to advance directives.

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American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As reported in the March of Dimes 2023 Report Card, the preterm birth rate in Kansas in 2022 was 10.5 A concerning issue is that the 2022 rate in Kansas was higher than the 2021 rate of 9.8 Although birth defects are the most common cause of infant death during that first year of life, preterm birth is also a contributing factor.

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Mental Health Medicaid Health Outcomes Education 52

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

MAY 12, 2022

Thousands of nurses on social media have quit, organized, and will protest on the day of her final court date, May 13, 2022. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducted an inspection of VUMC and issued a Statement of Deficiencies surrounding Murphey’s death, which sparked a criminal investigation into Vaught.

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Malpractice Military Medicaid Licensing 52

Consult QD

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The study included 48 Black patients and 232 white patients seen in Cleveland Clinic’s Renal Genetics Clinic between January 2019 and March 2022. “Genetic testing is increasingly accessible to patients with kidney diseases while racial disparities in renal genetics evaluations have not been investigated.” In this cohort, 56.3% vs. 6.7%).

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Medicaid Education 52

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Introduction SOUTH CAROLINA is predominately a rural state that consistently demonstrates poor health rankings, due to the lack of Medicaid expansion, healthcare deserts, and a decreasing physician supply. The 2022 public health data paint a dismal picture for chronic disease management and outcomes ( Table 1 ). 2022, October).

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APRN Nurse Practitioner Clinical Nurse Specialist Medicare 52

American Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Increasing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reimbursements by improving accountable care organization metric targets for primary care provider clinics also can have a positive future impact. August 10, 2022. June 29, 2022. Get with the Guidelines® – Stroke recognition overview. J Am Coll Cardiol. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2019.03.010

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