Annually, heart disease and COPD kill nearly 850,000 Americans and cost the United States over $370 billion. Yet, while recent studies have shown that cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation increases positive patient outcomes and decreases costs, less than 25 percent of...

Encourage your Members of Congress to Support Improved Medicare Patient Access to Needed Therapeutic ShoesAsk your Representative to cosponsor H.R. 1616, which would authorize nurse practitioners (NPs) to certify their patient's need for therapeutic shoes.  Passage of...

H.R. 1317/S. 575, the Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act promotes patient access to health care services delivered by the provider of their choice by removing outdated Medicare and Medicaid barriers on NPs and other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)...