May 14, 2021 - 02:21 PM
AHA yesterday voiced support for the Technical Reset to Advance the Instruction of Nurses Act (S.1568), bipartisan legislation that would prevent a Medicare payment error from affecting nursing and allied health education programs and direct graduate medical education.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year discovered it had miscalculated payments to nursing and allied health education programs and direct GME based on Medicare Advantage use, and directed Medicare administrative contractors to recoup payments from these programs, which include about 120 hospital-based nursing schools.
“This solution proposed by CMS will jeopardize the financial health of these essential hospital-based nursing programs and could cause many of them to close, amid a pandemic and a nationwide nursing shortage,” AHA said in a letter to Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va; Bob Menendez, D-N.J.; Rob Portman, R-Ohio; and Tammy Duckwort
MONTREAL As of Jan. 25, specialized nurse practitioners (IPS) will be able to diagnose and make treatment plans without the supervision of a doctor for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and lung disease and chronic obstructive disorders, as well as carry out pregnancy follow-ups. This historic advance which fully recognizes the skills of IPS will result, according to Quebec, in better access to health care for everyone, said the office of Higher Education Minister Danielle McCann on Friday. McCann is also responsible for the application of professional laws. I hope that the IPSs can contribute to the improvement of our health care up at the level of their ambitions and their skills, the minister said in a statement. The entry of this law into force is undoubtedly the culmination of one of the matters I am most proud of in my political career.