Nurse practitioners, though recognized as primary care providers in many states, could prove more useful for electronic health records and billing purposes than most practices currently make them, ...
A registered nurse and nurse practitioner pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing commercial health insurers and Medicare nearly $4.38 million for services he did not perform. Alexander Istomin, 56, ...
This scenario is not one which allows for billing of a leased nurse practitioner's services by a physician group. If a hospital leases a nurse practitioner from a physician group, the hospital could ...
Is Medicare indirect billing outdated? Experts discuss the often hidden phenomenon of indirect billing of NPs and PAs and whether the 85% reimbursement rate for APPs is equitable. Indirect billing for ...
There are several explanations for the complicated and varied law on NPs: The Federal government frequently defers to state law regarding NPs. Some states' law on NPs was enacted in the 1970s. Other ...
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly staffing Emergency departments as hospitals seek to contain costs while expanding services, despite predictions of an oversupply of residency-trained ...
Crystal Northcott, a nurse practitioner (NP) student at Memorial University, says the solution to the province’s health-care ...
Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...