American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Medicare expects beneficiaries or caregivers to perform routine foot care (nail trimming and shaving, paring, cutting, and removal of calluses [keratoma and tyloma] and corns [heloma]), so it’s excluded from coverage. CFCNs providing routine foot care must collect payment from the patient if health insurance doesn’t provide coverage.

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American Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, incorporating nursing referrals to pharmacists as part of routine patient care can help reduce polypharmacy, pharmacy and healthcare costs, and adverse drug–drug reactions. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association ; 2021. Backhouse A, Ogunlayi F.

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American Nurse

MARCH 13, 2024

Those who are receiving information more passively have no idea whether it’s important or harmful,” said Michael Barnett, a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard, who led the JAMA Network study. The FDA is unable to comment,” spokesperson Chanapa Tantibanchachai said.

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