American Nurse

JUNE 16, 2025

The disparity in this population has been extensively documented. The most frequently observed category of insurance was public Medicare/Medicaid (n = 27, 84.38%). However, these individuals can have difficulty understanding how to interact with a provider via telehealth, and there is a loss of needed hands-on assessment.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 24, 2025

The post HIPAA: What You Can and Can’t Disclose appeared first on Nurse Practitioners in Business. Tell us what you think, we’d love to hear from you… By Johanna Hofmann, MBA, MAc., EAMP; regular contributor to the NPBusiness blog.

HIPAA

American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Although nurses should check their state nurse practice act prior to developing their business structure, foot care remains one of the few areas that allows RN self-employment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website lists codes that indicate medical necessity. See CFCN® Medicare requirements.)

Medicare

Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 5, 2023

Clinical documentation audits. But it’s not the only reason payers may look at clinical documentation. We all know our documentation can protect us or get us into trouble if it’s not there. How to perform a self-audit prior to submission of any documentation. appeared first on Nurse Practitioners in Business.

Business

Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 13, 2023

And there are Nurse Practitioners who “fall” into their practice. But not all business plans are created equal… And depending on the size and the needs of the business or practice, some may benefit from a traditional, formal business plan, whereas others may do fine with a more informal document.

Business

Nurse Practitioners in Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The most significant growth in those needing healthcare is the geriatric population, and most of them will have Medicare and seek providers accepting Medicare. (By By the way, all providers, by law, must accept Medicare unless they intentionally and formally opt out. If you do, make sure to follow up!

Medicare

Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

According to “The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition,” claims again nurse practitioners (NPs) are rising. To find out what this means and what NPs can do about it, Daily Nurse interviewed Georgia Reiner, MS, CPHRM, Risk Analyst, Nurses Service Organization (NSO).

Malpractice

Amercan Journal of Nursing

JUNE 14, 2024

Attaining precise information on the nature of the salary gap is an important first step toward solving the nursing faculty shortage. But despite the importance of documenting the problem, there remain only seven co-sponsors on the House bill and one sponsor on the Senate bill—out of a potential 535 members of Congress.

Nurse Practitioner

Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

Georgia Reiner, MS CPHRM, a Risk Analyst at the Nurses Service Organization (NSO), agrees that telehealth has been around for a while. Some nursing professionals, mainly advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), including nurse practitioners (NPs), worked in telehealth before the beginning of the pandemic.

APRN

Capitol Beat

JANUARY 4, 2024

ANA’s regulatory engagements, though sometimes overlooked, are an important part of our advocacy on behalf of more than 5 million nurses in the U.S. Not surprisingly, the main focus of advocacy is the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its subagency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

APRN

Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anne Dabrow Woods has incredible insight into nursing as a practicing critical care nurse practitioner and nursing educator with over 39 years of experience and counting. How long have you been in nursing, and what are some of your roles during that time? I know what nurses need in practice.

Nurse Shortage

Amercan Journal of Nursing

MAY 21, 2025

If the patient EHR has bidirectional communication with the states immunization information system (immunization registry), ensure documented vaccine doses are pulled into the immunization information in that EHR. Use electronic health record (EHR) prompts and reminder calls.

Medicare

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

During the pandemic, about 230,000 APRNs treated Medicare patients, and approximately 40% of Medicare beneficiaries received care from APRNs. These may be institutional rules (such as barring nurse practitioners from seeing new patients) in independent practice states. Certain other restrictions also were lifted.

APRN

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. Advance directives are legal documents that allow adults to record their wishes related to serious illness or end-of-life care. See Patient self-determination.

Self-Care

American Nurse

JULY 3, 2024

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.

Self-Care

American Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

1980s: Kennedy lesion Fast forward to the 1980s, when Karen Lou Kennedy, a nurse practitioner in a 500-bed mid-Western long-term care facility, observed that some residents rapidly developed skin breakdown, usually on their buttocks, and died within 6 weeks to months.

Long Term Care