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One of our Nurse Practitioner readers shared with me her horror story in getting her merchant account set up. She wanted to pass this information along to other NPs. We are not publishing her real name at this point, as she is working with the District Attorney’s office in California.  The Better Business Bureau is also working on the issues as well. Continue Reading »

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Doing house calls seems to be a popular topic these days. Here is a question from an NP in NY…

I  currently am being HEAVILY recruited to be the first NP in a practice of a well established MD doing home visits.  Continue Reading »

Tags: house calls, NP Practice

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I’m sorry to blast this out on the blog, however, an NP wrote me with some great questions about a house call practice. However, her email did not come through on the contact form.  Please contact me again and include your email address.

Thanks!

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I realized yesterday that it was the 1 year anniversary since starting this blog. I have to confess…this past year has flown by.

When NP Business started, it was orginally to be a joint project with several NP who were in business. As it so happens, everyone is busy and it’s hard to commit to such a project. Yet somehow, this project has come together and continues to grow. Continue Reading »

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We’ll be talking with Agnes Oblas, ANP-C this next Sunday, April 20, 2008.

Ms. Oblas is a Nurse Practitioner and owner of New Paths to Healthcare. In addition to her own practice she Continue Reading »

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This past week, I ran into various different issues with the new Medicaid prescription laws.

The gist of it is, that those on Medicaid alone, will have to have their prescriptions faxed into the pharmacy or written on tamper proof paper.  Pharmacies were asking for us to do with this managed care as well – which was not part of this ruling.

The National Association of State Medicaid Directors website has a list for links to EACH state and the rules as they apply to your state. This came in handy…as I was able to fax the pharmacies the rules if there was a question.

Find your state and get a copy of your local rules: http://www.nasmd.org/issues/trpp.asp

Did you run into any problems?

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When I first started blogging (almost 4 years ago) about Nurse Practitoiners being in business(just 1 year ago), I could only find one other NP blogging on a regular basis and that is Continue Reading »

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Join us Sunday March 30th when we interview Lorraine W. Bock, M.S.N., C.R.N.P., C.E.N.  Ms. Bock is a Family Nurse Practitioner and co-owner of Nightingale Health & Wellness Services. Nightingale has 3 offices in South Central Continue Reading »

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After 8 months, it’s live. 

NPBO is open for business. I know in the past week several of you have attempted to sign up and could not…now you can. All the safeguards are in place. There is still much to add, but then that will be an ongoing process.  For more information about the site, please refer to the post about a New Resource  or better yet, visit Nurse Practitioner Business Owner.

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NPInterviews is talking with Nancy E. Dirubbo, BSN, FNP-C, WHNP-C, FAANP. Nancy currently owns Laconia Women’s Health Center, one of the oldest NP owned and operated primary care practices in the US.  Continue Reading »

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