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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

They're using platforms that enable rural residents to meet with specialists online, either from their homes or from telemedicine stations set up at local hospitals, health clinics, or doctor's offices. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. Nursing groups denounced the policy amendment.

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Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise

Minority Nurse

Regardless of the technology, nurses play essential roles throughout telemedicine, usually conveying or using insights or information. The United States Government Accountability Office reported a 15-fold increase over the prepandemic level in telehealth use among Medicaid beneficiaries. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Esther Conteh

Minority Nurse

Meet Esther Conteh, BSN, MSN, Associate Vice President, Care Management at VNS Health, overseeing clinical care of VNS Health CHOICE Medicaid Advantage Plus (MAP) , and Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) plans. Throughout the pandemic, it’s been amazing to see how telemedicine has transformed how we communicate and deliver care.

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

Capitol Beat

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program – The bill includes $13 million, an increase of $4 million within the total for Advanced Education Nursing to expand training and certification of RNs, APRNs, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual assault nurse examiners. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for APRNs and PAs.

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From Public Health Advisor to Congressional Candidate: Meet Lauren Underwood

Minority Nurse

I wanted to continue the work and so I came back home to Illinois because Illinois is a state that expanded Medicaid. I got a job working for a Medicaid managed care company in Chicago as the Senior Director for Strategy and Regulatory Affairs for a company called Next Level Health. Are you still there?

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