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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the California Black Health Network (CBHN) and the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). The study was funded in part by the U.S.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2022

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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Meet the New President of the AANP: Stephen A. Ferrara

Minority Nurse

There are many outdated laws or policies, particularly Medicare and Medicaid. This bill will make many improvements and modernizations to laws, including a nurse practitioner’s ability to prescribe diabetic shoes for patients with Medicare insurance for cardiac rehab, inpatient cardiac rehab, and medical nutrition therapy.

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

Minority Nurse

Supported by the AANP and other major nursing organizations, the act would update Medicare and Medicaid to enable advanced practice nurses to practice to the top of their education and clinical training, according to a press release from the American Nurses Association.

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

Minority Nurse

Supported by the AANP and other major nursing organizations, the act would update Medicare and Medicaid to enable advanced practice nurses to practice to the top of their education and clinical training, according to a press release from the American Nurses Association.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: Yeah, absolutely. Michele: Yeah.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. Don’t use the, you know, nursing magazine articles or, or. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6 billion over five years.