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The Changing Face of Healthcare Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The emergency decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 17, 2020 (and retroactively in effect beginning March 6, 2020) to pay for telehealth visits outside of rural areas has eased physician concern.

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Meet the New President of the AANP: Stephen A. Ferrara

Minority Nurse

Ferrara is a busy man, wearing many hats. Once I understood the role of nurses and patient advocacy, the ability to share health information and care for people and promote health and wellness, that was my epiphany. We want to remove barriers to practice that impede nurse practitioners from delivering healthcare to our patients.

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The Cost of ‘Free’: Advising Patients About Sponsored Genetic Testing

Consult QD

Direct-to-consumer testing is transparent in that it is a consumer-business relationship with costs up front. 1-4 Sponsoring companies may use resulting data to recruit patients for clinical trials, make providers and patients aware of new therapies, or develop new tests for diagnosing genetic diseases.