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Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act: Legislators Want to Hear from Nurses 

Daily Nurse

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. The ICAN Act is improving care and access to nursing.

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Full Practice Authority Gains Ground in 26 States: What This Means for Nurse Practitioners 

Minority Nurse

“It’s because we demonstrate our commitment to quality and equitable care and ensuring care is provided in all communities.” In states that have moved to full practice authority, “we’ve seen improved patient care outcomes. Arizona, she notes, moved to FPA in 2001. We’ve seen an increase in the workforce.

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Full Practice Authority Gains Ground in 26 States: What This Means for Nurse Practitioners 

Minority Nurse

“It’s because we demonstrate our commitment to quality and equitable care and ensuring care is provided in all communities.”. In states that have moved to full practice authority, “we’ve seen improved patient care outcomes. FPA, COVID and Care. Arizona, she notes, moved to FPA in 2001.

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And I also realized that, well, as a therapist, I could impact one patient’s life or one family’s life at a time. And that was awesome.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. I think that there are for-profit hospices like VITAS that have been around for a long time that really have the resources to support people whose goals of care are less aligned with the traditional hospice philosophy.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 billion in 2001 to about $18.3 billion in 2012. It reached 4.5%