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Path to Penn Nursing with Barbara Doyle, RN, MSN

Penn Nursing

Penn Nursing This issue - Fall 2022 Spring 2025 Fall 2024 Spring 2024 Fall 2023 Spring 2023 Fall 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Spring 2021 Search SCOPE Fagin Hall Goes Digital Features Bright Ideas Meet the Leonard A. Took a career break from an Oncology Unit to join the Peace Corp and focus on direct care and education.

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Justice Department Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Home Health Agency Over PPP Loans

Healthcare Law Insights blog

This FCA action is a notable reminder to healthcare providers that they must be careful in representations they make to the government. Two years later, in 2022, the defendant was charged with and pled guilty to Medicaid fraud. That is a catastrophic consequence for a Medicaid-related crime that netted $146,000.

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Connecting the dots with cannabis care

American Nurse

Kim King Kim King, MSN, FNP-C, who consults on cannabis care through her business, Thrive to Care and Wellness Education Consulting, hopes to see cannabis education added to nursing program curricula in the next 5 years. We’ve got to educate all nurses, from LPNs to RNs to APRNs,” she said. It needs to go further,” she said.

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Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

American Nurse

adults have received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Many clinical nurses don’t have the knowledge needed to customize patient-centered care to meet the individual needs of adults with ASD. Many organizations lack the resources to support clinical nurses in identifying adults with ASD and implementing appropriate care.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

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With the successes reaped during the pilot of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to accelerate the results nationwide. The program started in 2016 as a pilot to determine the impact of financial incentives on home health agencies in nine states. million decrease.

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Rehabilitation Nursing and How it has Evolved Over the Years

American Nurse

It is caring for an individual with a disability, acute condition, or chronic illness and helping them reach their maximum potential and function or adapt to the new physical or neurological challenges they are facing. In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP).

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Long‐term acute care hospitals. Short-term acute care hospitals. Most states’ retrieval rates of the 2021 home health agencies PEPPER stood at 40% to 59%.