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Record-Keeping Beyond Charts

Nurse Practitioners in Business

HIPAA-related documents, such as privacy notices and release-of-information forms, also fall under this category. Audit Trails and Internal Reviews Keep records of your self-audits, such as chart reviews for coding accuracy, or checks to ensure your practice follows HIPAA protocols. By Johanna Hofmann, MBA, MAc.,

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The 3 Common Mistakes NPs Make Starting Their Practice

Nurse Practitioners in Business

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.

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Healthcare Policy: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects patient information from release to the public while permitting the exchange of this information between medical professionals and in certain other situations. Failure to comply with HIPAA can result in fines of $50,000 or higher per violation. Want to know more about our nursing programs?

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Nurses as Key Players in Telehealth

Daily Nurse

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.

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