Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) recognize nurse practitioners (NPs) as ACO professionals; however, the claims-based assignment pathway requires an NP’s patient to receive at least one primary care service provided by a primary...

H.R. 2713/S. 2418, 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Nurses (ICAN) Act promotes patient access to health care services delivered by the provider of their choice by removing outdated Medicare and Medicaid barriers on NPs and other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)...

Annually, heart disease and COPD kills nearly 850,000 Americans and costs the United States over $370 billion. Yet while recent studies have shown that cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation increases positive patient outcomes and decrease 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 S. 260/H.R. 704 which would authorize nurse practitioners (NPs) to certify their patient's need for therapeutic shoes. ...

Currently, federal employees can select an NP as their health care provider under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and the majority of states authorize NPs to provide the diagnosis and treatment for a workplace related injury. However, contrary to the workers’...