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Nursing is so Unique it Needs Two Unique Identifiers

American Nurse

Change this 100-year-old policy (2023) thefreelibrary.com – Nursing is the room rate (2012) HISTORY “Want to Fix the Nursing Shortage?” Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Nursing is so Unique it Needs Two Unique Identifiers

American Nurse

Change this 100-year-old policy (2023) thefreelibrary.com – Nursing is the room rate (2012) HISTORY “Want to Fix the Nursing Shortage?” Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

Medication reviews performed for older adult patients help reduce health problems that impact daily life, improve medication adherence, decrease hospital admissions, and lower drug–drug adverse reactions. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. September 6, 2023. Backhouse A, Ogunlayi F. 2020;368:m865.doi:10.1136/bmj.m865

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ANA’s Summary of $1.5 trillion Omnibus Includes Several Nursing Priorities

Capitol Beat

Nursing and Allied Health Workforce Shortages – The Committee notes that in a March 2021 survey conducted by the HHS Office of the Inspector General, hospitals reported that nursing shortages during the COVID–19 pandemic significantly strained health care delivery and were a significant obstacle to addressing the public health emergency.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Rural health executives share their solutions to healthcare desert challenges. Editor’s note: This article appears in the July-September 2023 edition of HealthLeaders magazine. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. Medicare is about 46% and Medicaid is about 14%. What will it take?

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Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Standards: A Good Start, But Not Quite There

Amercan Journal of Nursing

On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. In the past, this has come through mechanisms such as wage pass throughs and Medicaid Incentive Payment Programs. 2001, December 24).

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

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. CMS defines “value” as improvement in health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement. 2023; 18(5).