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Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice and Legal Guide, 8th Edition – E-Book – Original PDF<\/p>\n

This text contains the answers to many questions asked of me in my 32 years of practice as an attorney. I retired recently, but I focused for many years on the legal issues affecting nurse practitioners. The questions came from nurse practitioners, employers of nurse practitioners, hospital and nursing facility executives, student nurse practitioners and their professors, other attorneys, bureaucrats, and legislators conducting hearings about bills that addressed nurse practitioners.<\/p>\n

Nurse practitioners frequently ask questions such as these:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 A physician (or hospital or group) wants to hire me to do [fill in a particular healthcare ser-<\/p>\n

vice]. Can I legally do that?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 An insurance company refuses to pay the bill for a patient\u2019s visit with me. What can I do?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I want to start my own practice. What is involved, legally?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 What should be covered in my employment contract?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Can I incorporate in a business with physicians?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I have been working in a trauma center for 4 years. Now, I hear that my notes need to be co-<\/p>\n

signed by a physician. Is that true?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I want to prescribe for a patient who lives in another state. Can I do that?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I have been working without a contract. Now, the company wants me to be on call 3 nights a<\/p>\n

week. Do I have to do it?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I am writing a paper for my \u201cnurse practitioner role\u201d class on legislative issues affecting<\/p>\n

nurse practitioners. What are these issues?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How can I get on a health plan\u2019s provider panel?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 A group wants to pay me a base salary plus a percentage of billings over $300,000. Is this<\/p>\n

reasonable?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 What does \u201cincident to a physician\u2019s professional services\u201d mean?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How do I get a DEA number? Do I need to get one?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I know nothing about how billing is done. Can you tell me how to get reimbursed for my<\/p>\n

services?<\/p>\n

Legislators and bureaucrats frequently ask such questions as these:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How is a nurse practitioner different from a registered nurse?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Which states allow nurse practitioners to practice independently?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How does a nurse practitioner know when to consult a physician?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Does a physician have to supervise everything a nurse practitioner does?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 In how many states can nurse practitioners write prescriptions?<\/p>\n

Employers of nurse practitioners frequently ask such questions as these:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 I want the nurse practitioner to see my hospitalized patients. Can we get reimbursed for<\/p>\n

that?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 How can we get paid by Medicare for patient visits to the nurse practitioner?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 We want to put nurse practitioners in nursing homes. What can the nurse practitioner do?<\/p>\n

Admit patients? Perform the yearly visit? Perform illness-related visits? Recertify?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Who is liable if the nurse practitioner makes a mistake, the nurse practitioner or the<\/p>\n

physician?<\/p>\n

Other attorneys ask such questions as these:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 A nursing home I represent has hired a nurse practitioner to do administrative work and to<\/p>\n

see patients. How can we bill for his or her services?<\/p>\n

\u25a0 My clients want to start a network of nurse practitioner practices. What can you tell me<\/p>\n

about that? Do you know anything about [fill in any state] law on nurse practitioners?<\/p>\n

Some of the questioners became clients, and I did the necessary legal research to answer their questions and completed the necessary legal documents to carry out their plans. Others will now benefit from the work done for those clients.<\/p>\n

Nurse practitioners who read this book will have a solid knowledge base to use, whether it be in developing an employment relationship, undertaking a business venture, giving testimony before a state legislature, composing a letter to an insurance company about an unpaid bill, teaching at a school of nursing, or serving as president of a state or national organization.<\/p>\n

My hope is that once nurse practitioners have this base of knowledge about the business of health care and the legal foundation on which nurse practitioners function, they can hasten the advancement of their careers.<\/p>\n

Authors: Carolyn Buppert
\nPublication: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 8th edition (November 15, 2023)
\nYear: 2023
\nISBN: 9781284286434, 9781284019902 , 9781284286465, 9781284019896, 9781284286458
\nFormat: Original PDF
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Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice and Legal Guide, 8th Edition – E-Book – Original PDF
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