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Navigating Medicare: A Guide for Kansas Nurses

American Nurse

MEDICARE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR in the vast healthcare landscape, supporting millions of Americans, including a substantial segment of Kansas’s population. For nurses across the state, understanding Medicare’s intricacies is beneficial and essential for providing comprehensive care.

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Primary care involves more than GPs. A new review shows how patients can better access care

Nursing Review

It has mostly involved adding more items to the Medicare schedule, with each professional practising separately. To the disappointment of most allied health professions, the review does not recommend more Medicare payments for them to practise independently. Any change has been incremental and disjointed.

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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

OTs working in home health can initiate the start of care in more situations beginning in 2022 under changes to the Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs). Under previous rules, an OT was not authorized by Medicare to conduct an initial assessment in home health. OTs Can Conduct Medicare Initial Assessment.

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Foot Care Nurses: Saving Limbs, One Foot at a Time

Diversity Nursing

Nurses, trained to provide holistic care, focus not just on treating diseases but on addressing the overall well-being of their patients. These determinants include the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, as well as the broader societal forces shaping these conditions.