Recently I’ve received several questions from nurse practitioners and other clinicians about Medicare and Medicaid. Specifically they are questioning if they should accept patients into their practices with these insurances and if they already do, should they consider opting out? Not surprisingly, there is a lot of emotion behind these questions. Most NPs I’ve spoken Read More
April 1st is around the corner, and for all prescribers, including NPs, that means new regulations will be in effect. Any written prescription for clients with Medicaid have to be on prescriptions that prevent unauthorized copying, erasure or modification, or counterfeiting. I previously wrote about this, along with some resources on where to purchase these Read More
You don’t have to change how you process Medicaid prescriptions until April 2008. Below is the portion of the noticed copied directly from the WA DSHS notice that was sent out.Â
Read MoreTucked 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 Read More
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