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Don’t Let Tax Season Sneak Up: Use This Checklist

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Ensure Payroll Tax Compliance: If you have employees, make sure payroll taxes (Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment taxes) are withheld and remitted. Professional Fees: Renewing your state license, board certifications, and memberships in professional organizations (AANP, state NP associations) are all tax-deductible.

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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

According to data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nearly 90% of the 355,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the United States are trained in primary care, and 70% of active nurse practitioners work delivering primary care. By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services.

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How Automation Gives Nurses More Time for Patient Care 

Daily Nurse

The nursing shortage, unfortunately, will only worsen as older nurses retire from the workforce. When hospitals and health systems use automation augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) for data abstraction, they help nurses work at the top of their licenses, providing bedside care that no technology could ever replace.

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Too many Australians miss out on essential medical care every year. Here’s how to fix ‘GP deserts’

Nursing Review

In Triabunna on Tasmanias east coast, a retirement in 2020 saw residents left with only one GP , forcing people to travel to other areas for care, sometimes for well over an hour. If services funded by Medicare and other sources stay below that level for years, funding should automatically become available to bridge the gap.

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Dual Threats from Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Without them, the retired Episcopal priest said, "I would be, and my building would be, desolate." Nursing homes have struggled to replace licensed nurses, who can find better-paying jobs at hospitals and doctors' offices, as well as nursing assistants, who can earn more working at big-box stores or fast-food joints.

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The Changing Face of Healthcare Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The emergency decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 17, 2020 (and retroactively in effect beginning March 6, 2020) to pay for telehealth visits outside of rural areas has eased physician concern.

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The Exec: What Nursing Practice Redesign, or Evolution, Looks Like at Indiana University Health

Health Leaders | Nursing

Care models had not wavered much since hospitals became medicalized in the early 20 th century, and particularly since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were created in 1965, says Jason Gilbert, PhD MBA RN NEA-BC , executive vice president and chief nurse executive, Indiana University Health.