Jul 30 2007
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For years, I have heard people refer to managed care. I don’t think I really understood what the problem was, until now. Continue Reading »
Jul 26 2007
A recent discussion on the NP List has been about health coaching. This discussion I believe, started with a post about a new “business” called Health Coaching, where the people being trained were non-professionals Continue Reading »
Tags: health coach, NP PracticeJul 22 2007
Tucked away in the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007, is a little known law that takes effect 10/1/2007 that will impact all practices seeing Medicaid patients.
This law, once it is implemented, will require us to write Medicaid prescriptions on special tamper-resistant prescription pads or use electronic prescribing. Continue Reading »
Tags: e prescribing, Medicaid, NP practice issues, Practice Mgmt, tamper proof prescriptionsJul 17 2007
The July 2007 issue of Advance for Nurse Practitioners published an article, Writing to Get The Grant, by Jean Nagelkerk, NP Continue Reading »
Tags: Practice Mgmt, StartupJul 16 2007
For any practice, the lifeblood comes from our patients. If we have no patients, we have no income and no business. Oftentimes when we think of marketing, we think of advertising which causes us to see dollar signs all over the place. But does marketing have to cost lots of money? Continue Reading »
Tags: health care practice, Marketing, practice managementJul 15 2007
The following forms have been sent in to be shared with other NP’s and PA’s in clinical practice. Continue Reading »
Tag: clinical formsJul 11 2007
Thus far, three different NP’s have shared clinical forms with NPBusiness.ORG, 19 forms in total. Continue Reading »
Tags: adult visit form, clinical forms, pediatric visit form, procedure formJul 09 2007
In many states, formal physician collaborative agreements are a requirement for practice. Continue Reading »
Tags: collaborative practice agreements, collaborative practice contract, NP practice issuesJul 06 2007
Applying to become a Medicare provider can be a daunting task! First you have to decide which application(s) you need and then work your way through the long application. Here are a few quick tips Continue Reading »
Tags: insurance, Practice MgmtJul 02 2007
Like many rural area, MO is lacking in primary care providers. This was certainly true in my area…when I opend, the hospital CEO was quoted as saying we were down by TEN PCP’s. However, there is a bit of a twist to Laura’s story… Continue Reading »
Tags: Missouri, NP practice issues, nurse practitioners, rural health care
