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Should You Become a Nurse Practitioner?

Nurse.com

Another clear barrier to care is economic — many physicians are unable to accept Medicaid, while many Americans on Medicare struggle to find primary care physicians and specialists accepting new patients. It is no surprise, then, that NPs are in particular demand in rural America and, over 80% of NPs accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.

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Path to Penn Nursing with Barbara Doyle, RN, MSN

Penn Nursing

Joined Booze Allen supporting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and Oncology Care. Requiring more marketing experience to hold her product management position, returned to Penn for a Marketing certificate from Wharton. Transitioned to Health Informatics, and then moved into Health IT consulting.

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What to Know In an Expanding Continuous Glucose Monitoring Landscape

Consult QD

A new policy from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vastly expands coverage for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), putting better type 2 diabetes management within reach for millions more patients. In Ohio, Medicaid recently started covering CGM for all people with diabetes, regardless of what medications they take.

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A Higher Power: Physician obligations to report another physician’s conduct under Wyoming law

Healthcare Law Insights blog

A hospital that receives what it suspects to be an improper transfer must report their suspicions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the relevant state survey agency within 72 hours of when the hospital suspects they have received an improperly transferred individual. Ethics: II: 9.4.2 32106 (June 22, 1994). 9 42 U.S.C.

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The Joint Commission: How to prepare and what to expect

American Nurse

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides federal oversight of care quality in all U.S. hospitals that receive Medi­care and Medicaid funding. Hospitals that accept patients with Medicare or Medicaid insurance (approximately 61.4 Doi: 10.51256/ANJ072339 Reference Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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

Relias

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Although the report is free and accessible easily online, provider download rates tend to be low. We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better. Low retrieval rates.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

The project included use of the organization’s telemedicine AnyWhere Care (AWC) web application, which patients can download to their smartphones. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The application then feeds data to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR). Backhouse A, Ogunlayi F. 2020;368:m865.doi:10.1136/bmj.m865