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NP Scharmaine Baker Convicted in $12.1M Medicare Fraud Scheme
Image sources: Amazon Dr. Scharmaine Lawson Baker, a Louisiana nurse practitioner, author, and entrepreneur, was recently convicted by a federal…
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Massive Medicare Payment Changes Could Reinvent How Doctors Get Paid—and Patients Benefit
For the first time, Medicare plans to create a two-tiered payment system for physicians based on their participation in value-based…
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$15B From Nurse Practitioner Home Visits Prompts Humana Medicare (MA) Reform Push
WSJ reports that Humana, the second-largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurer, is publicly supporting significant reforms to billing practices that have generated…
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20% Drop in COVID-19 Medicare Patient Deaths Linked To Better Nurse Workplaces (Study)
A groundbreaking study from the Penn Nursing Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), published in INQUIRY, uncovered a…
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