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CMS awards funding for APRN training

July 11, 2012

On July 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the participants for a new initiative that provides funds to support clinical training of advanced practice…

Crime doesn’t pay

March 11, 2011

Fraud and abuse account for up to 10% of U.S. healthcare expenditures. What should you do if you suspect potential healthcare fraud or abuse?

Going with the flow of infusion nursing

December 11, 2008

Thanks partly to the new Medicare and Medicaid hospital reimbursement rules and the trend toward home health care, infusion nurses are in greater demand than ever. As hospitals…

Medicaid expansion and ED use

August 11, 2016

The expansion of Medicaid insurance coverage in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act did not increase hospital emergency department (ED) visits, but did strongly affect payer mix,…

Nearly half of patients with hepatitis C on Medicaid denied drug coverage

December 2, 2015

Nearly 50% of Medicaid patients infected with chronic hepatitis C whose doctors had prescribed newer, life-saving antiviral drugs were denied coverage to the therapies because they weren’t considered…

Reader Feedback, January 2019

January 18, 2019

THIS IS WHERE we share some of the comments, insights, and thoughts we receive from readers. Contact us at myamericannurse.com/send-letter-editor. (more…)