Relias

JULY 15, 2025

While the law has been passed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is still in the process of defining how the funds will be distributed and what will qualify for reimbursement or grant support. It will depend on how accessible and sustainable that support really is.

Medicaid

The Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

As trusted healthcare professionals, Mills and Powell assert nurses’ moral obligation to speak out against leadership that threatens the core values of healthcare and public service. We, like millions of healthcare providers across the country are sounding the alarm on RFK Jr.

Leadership

Penn Nursing

OCTOBER 14, 2021

So Do Their Patients Leadership Health Care and Social Justice: Perfect Together The Vaccinators: Nurses and Needles on the Pandemic Front Lines As the Page Turns Dean’s Letter Integrated Innovation Download Fall 2021 issue Menu Button Feature Roads, Bridges, and … Caregivers? Media Spotlight Nurses Deserve Better.

Nurse Practitioner

The Relentless School Nurse

MAY 19, 2025

At CMS , alterations to Medicaid are being implemented behind closed doors. Medicaid: A Lifeline Under Siege The attacks continue with Medicaid, the primary source of healthcare for millions of children, people with disabilities, and low-income families. Medicaid is not just a budget itemits a lifeline. Kennedy Jr.

Medicaid

Registered Nursing

JULY 18, 2025

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. led the nation with just 3.4% is intertwined with poor birth outcomes.

Medicaid

Penn Nursing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 12, 2025

The I CAN Act The Improving Care and Access to Nurses (I CAN) Act is another bipartisan bill that would remove the federal barriers in Medicare and Medicaid programs that stop APRNs from practicing to the full extent of their clinical education and training, according to another press release.

Preceptors

American Nurse

JULY 2, 2025

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Medicaid

Penn Nursing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He was moved to leadership by engaging in the Mary E. He says, “It’s important to give students the opportunity to see Black nurses in leadership roles, who in turn will talk about the hurdles Black nurses face.” I hope my leadership inspires our members to dream big and reach higher.” and patient care.

Leadership

The Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Oz: Snake Oil Salesman in Chief Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV quack extraordinaire, has been tapped to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This nomination shows a complete disregard for the importance of education and the need for experienced leadership in this crucial field.

Health Insurance

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 16, 2025

Providence Swedish cited rising costs, insurance delays, inflation in the medical and pharmaceutical world, and looming federal government funding cuts to Medicaid and Medicare as reasons for the decision. In total, 600 full-time jobs are being eliminated across seven states Providence Swedish operates in.

Pharmaceutical

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

APRIL 22, 2025

Healthcare Coverage In 2023, 92 percent of Americans had some form of healthcare coveragewhether employer-provided coverage, Medicare or Medicaid or private health insurance. In the USAHS Doctor of Nursing Program (DNP) program, you can further your knowledge in health policy, leadership and advocacy.

HIPAA

The Relentless School Nurse

MAY 10, 2025

Medicaid funding relied upon by trauma patients and gun violence survivors is on the chopping block. Panelists: Dr. Joseph Sakran Dr. Sakran is Bradys Board Chair and Chief Medical Officer, founder of This Is Our Lane, and serves in multiple leadership roles at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

Medicaid

Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. Commercial insurance and private pay revenue sources rarely cover services for people with IDD, leaving Medicaid as essentially the sole payer for these services. Third, train your supervisors in leadership and management. DSP retention and career advancement.

Medicaid

American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) These regulations provide essential guidelines for healthcare providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Encourage a proactive approach by ensuring that leadership demonstrates a strong commitment to compliance and sets a positive example.

HIPAA

Nurse.com

JULY 18, 2022

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.

Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

He’s an actively practicing NP in New York and a member of the senior leadership team at Columbia University’s School of Nursing, serving as the associate dean of clinical affairs and assistant professor responsible for overseeing the NP primary care faculty practice located in New York City and teaches health policy in the DNP program.

Nurse Practitioner

Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 5, 2023

A shared leadership/professional governance mindset is key to a successful practice redesign, CNE says. Letting go of that traditional paternalistic command-and-control models of leadership and getting into that shared leadership/professional governance mindset is the key to the future with this.

Retirement

Amercan Journal of Nursing

AUGUST 19, 2024

Some current examples of issues that nurse advocates are working on through federal legislative change are workplace violence, mandatory overtime, faculty shortages, workforce development, and modernizing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment systems for nursing care. Support from these smaller groups is essential.

APRN

American Medical Compliance

JUNE 21, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimated that improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs exceeded $100 billion from 2016 to 2023. Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in healthcare present significant challenges, causing substantial financial losses, eroding public trust, and compromising the quality of patient care.

Medicaid

Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Emergency Preparedness Rule to provide a national framework for healthcare organizations to improve their readiness for emergencies. This regulation established consistent emergency preparedness requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers of all types.

Medicaid

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 29, 2024

For payers, Woods said, change would likely begin at the federal level with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Nursing is the single largest workforce in any hospital, according to Jackson, and so nurses must be included in leadership and decision-making processes. This would provide a model for other payers. "If

Chief Nursing Officer

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

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 Rather, it falls under the leadership standard (LD.04.01.01), March 2023.

Medicaid

American Nurse

MARCH 5, 2024

Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with Governor Kelly and several healthcare organizations in Kansas to discuss strategies for passing legislation on Medicaid expansion for the state. We delved into the impact of neighboring states expanding Medicaid, drawing Kansas residents for healthcare services, leading to revenue loss.

Medicaid

Health Leaders | Nursing

APRIL 10, 2023

As we move toward value-based care, we have to take care of lots of people, especially as Medicaid is expanded throughout our country. For example, in dermatology, APPs might do general dermatology and the physicians might do the surgical subspecialty part of that.

Pharmaceutical

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Dear readers, I am extremely excited to be embarking on this very important role and wish to express my gratitude to the leadership of the Maryland Nurses Association (MNA) for selecting me as the Editor-in-Chief of this journal. It is an honor to collaborate with the exceptional members of the Editorial Board and the publisher team.

Medicaid

Capitol Beat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) entitled Make Your Voice Heard: Promoting Efficiency and Equity Within CMS Programs. These recommendations also support ANA’s legislative advocacy as we encourage lawmakers to support H.R. This blog was guest-authored by Samantha Karp.

APRN

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In The Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity , the National Academy of Medicine promotes an interprofessional approach to education and training for nurses to help develop their leadership skills as well as their understanding of health equity, social determinants of health, and population health.

Long Term Care

Consult QD

JULY 18, 2023

Origins and COVID-19 impact The program arose from Cleveland Clinic’s desire to leverage technology to make emergency care more accessible and from the healthcare system’s initial experience with a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment model called Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3).

Medicare

Minority Nurse

MARCH 29, 2023

After working as a home health aide at VNS Health, she became an RN with the organization and moved quickly through the ranks, leading to her current leadership role, where she oversees a large and diverse team. Moving into a leadership/managerial role was daunting, but I’m glad I did it. What is your title, and where do you work?

Long Term Care

Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

For Medicare claims, you already track care quality and report it to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). And that requires continuous attention from your leadership team and opportunities for your staff to advance its education. And don’t forget to praise individual staff members for a job well done.

Medicare

Capitol Beat

JULY 24, 2024

The final rule was issued by CMS in April.

Medicare

American Nurse

APRIL 30, 2024

In this role, she leads projects and advises within the agency aimed at improving care for Medicaid beneficiaries in Texas. Rocha and her team translate that clinical language into policy, determining needs for Medicaid recipients and bringing in specialty clinicians when necessary.

Medicaid

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not reimburse healthcare organizations for costs associated with hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, appropriate assessment at the time of admission is vital. With proactive steps, you can use your leadership power to heal the gaps in wound care education.

Education

Capitol Beat

APRIL 16, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from finalizing its proposed long-term care safe staffing regulation. ANA sent a letter to House Leadership expressing its concerns about the bill’s adverse impact on the nursing workforce and the importance of ensuring safe staffing in long-term care facilities.

Long Term Care

Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 17, 2023

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a Proposed Rule that, if finalized, would extend the application of the “36-Month Rule” from home health agencies (“HHAs”) to also include hospice agencies as well. The 36-Month Rule, found at 42 C.F.R.

Medicare

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. The act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes, follow state laws related to advance directives.

Self-Care