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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide. PEPPER provides each hospice organization’s paid Medicare claims for the last three fiscal years. Jurisdictional or Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC). PEPPER Target Areas.

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To Reimburse or Not to Reimburse: Demonstrating the Value of Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

"Now as a nurse, it becomes really problematic if you're not getting reimbursed for the care you deliver … and you're lumped into that room and board charge," Woods said, "because it's very difficult to articulate the value that nurses bring to patient care in acute care settings or other settings if you can't reimburse."

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2022 Congressional Spending Bill Included Several ANA-Supported Nursing Provisions to Cap off the Year

Capitol Beat

Opioids ANA Chief Nursing Officer, Debbie Hatmaker, sent a letter to Congressional Leadership highlighting the need for certain bills and/or provisions to be included in this omnibus package. Annual Medicare Payment Changes Medicare providers were faced with 8.5% We are pleased to report that H.R.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

I’ve worked as a staff nurse, nurse educator, manager, and director of different critical care in hospitals, and then I went on and became a nurse practitioner. As a critical care NP, I work weekends for Penn Medicine Chester County Hospita l and teach undergraduate nursing. But we have to invest in our nurses.

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Addressing social determinants of health

American Nurse

Addressing SDOH isn’t new to nurses, said Roberta Waite, EdD, MSN, RN, PMH-CNS, ANEF, FAAN, dean and chief nursing officer at Georgetown University School of Nursing. Nursing has been paying attention to these specific issues that influence health almost since the beginning of the profession,” she observed.

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Sepsis navigators and hospital outcomes

American Nurse

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) worked with purchasers, physicians, healthcare organizations, and consumers to identify evidence-based process measures (core measures) to reduce morbidity, mortality, variability, and cost while improving quality outcomes. Kreiser is vice president and chief nursing officer.

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2022: The Year of the Value of the Nurse

Capitol Beat

In September, ANA worked with several other nursing organizations and Congressional Representatives Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Dave Joyce (R-OH) to introduce the Improving Care and Access to Nurses , or #ICAN Act, in the U.S. Read more about the #ICAN Act here. Learn more and email your senators, here.