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Nurse Practitioner Driven Home Based Primary Care Access and Immunization Intiative for Adults with Autism and/or Intellectual Disability

American Nurse

Research has shown that adults with ASD and/or ID experience barriers to primary care due to overstimulation of the clinical environment, especially those with the most severe impairment (Stein Duker & Goodman, 2022). The most frequently observed category of insurance was public Medicare/Medicaid (n = 27, 84.38%).

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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

This progress is credited to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and enhanced marketplace subsidies. However, these gains are fragile: with policy changes to reduce Medicaid access, millions could lose coverage, impacting patients and providers alike. Infant mortality increased in 20 states between 2018 and 2022.

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Making Sense of the Maze of Online Patient Portals

Minority Nurse

Non-compliance results in hefty fines of up to $1 million per violation, as enforced by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)​ ( Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services )​​. These laws empower consumers by ensuring they can access and control their health data, facilitating better-informed decisions and coordinated care.”

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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. Home health care.