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Healthcare Compliance for New Providers: Getting Started

American Medical Compliance

Here are the key areas of healthcare compliance. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) This compliance is crucial for safeguarding patient health information. Encourage a proactive approach by ensuring that leadership demonstrates a strong commitment to compliance and sets a positive example.

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Behind the Poor Pay and High Turnover Rates of Direct Support Professionals

Relias

Direct support professionals (DSPs) typically receive low wages and have limited access to health insurance and other benefits. Individual states determine provider rates and must include these rates in their state’s Medicaid Plan, which is ultimately reviewed by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS).

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One nurse’s perspective: How to resolve the high cost of healthcare in the United States

American Nurse

American citizens pay for their health insurance through premiums and co-pays, but they remain at risk for substantial out-of-pocket medical bills after receiving treatment for just one illness or injury that could leave them filing for bankruptcy. citizens with an option for supplementary insurance.

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Nursing and the evolution of population health

American Nurse

To decrease health disparities and the costs of treatment and care, focus has turned toward prevention and population health and away from episodic acute care. This emphasis will require nurses to take on important operational and leadership roles in programs established to improve the health of the nation.

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Trump’s Latest Cabinet Picks – A Circus of Incompetence

The Relentless School Nurse

Dr. Oz: Snake Oil Salesman in Chief Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV quack extraordinaire, has been tapped to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz, notorious for peddling pseudoscience and miracle weight loss cures on his daytime show, now holds the reins of an agency responsible for the health of millions of Americans.

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