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Health Affairs Blog: The Integrity Of MACRA May Be Undermined By “Incident To Billing” Coding
January 8, 2018 - The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015
ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that for years had resulted in an eleventh-hour
intervention by Congress to avoid drastic reductions in Medicare physician payments.
MACRA also established incentives...Read More
Nursing Outlook: The quality of primary care provided by nurse practitioners to vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries
January 4, 2018 - A new study out in Nursing Outlook compared care to three groups provided to Medicare beneficiaries by PCNPs and physicians
to evaluate cost and quality measures. The study found that quality of care provided
by PCNPs was overall consistent with the care provided by physicians and resulted
in less costly health interventions...
Nursing Economic$: Improving Nursing Workforce Forecasts: Comparative Analysis of the Cohort Supply Model and the Health Workforce Simulation Model
December 20, 2017 - A new article out in the November/December edition of Nursing Economic$ details key work to improve forecasting models from a meeting in Big Sky, Montana
last summer organized by Center researchers and Health Resources Service Administration
representatives...Read More
Breaking Down Silos: An Interview with the Health Workforce Forecasting Team
December 20, 2017 - In addition to “Improving Nursing Workforce Forecasts: Comparative
Analysis of the Cohort Supply Model and the Health Workforce Simulation Model” out
in the November/December issue of Nursing Economic$, Center researchers and Health Services Resources Administration representatives
sat down with Donna Nickitas to discuss the genesis and the journey of working together
to improve forecasting models for the registered nursing workforce...Read More
Nursing Economic$: State of the Registered Nurse Workforce as a New Era of Health Reform Emerges
November 3, 2017 - Published in the October/November 2017 edition of Nursing Economic$, Center researchers examine the state of the nursing workforce in light of previous
shortage forecasts, public and private...Read More
New Research Shows Recent Changes of Nurses Graduating from Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
February 24, 2016 – Center researchers Peter Buerhaus, David Auerbach and Douglas
Staiger have just published a new Data Watch article in the journal Nursing Economic$
titled, “Recent Changes in the Number of Nurses Graduating from Undergraduate and
Graduate Programs.” Summary: Since the 1970s, a number of initiatives have attempted
to increase the proportion of...
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MSU study finds nurse practitioners more likely than medical doctors to work in rural areas
January 14, 2016 — MSU News Service New research by Montana State University professor
Peter Buerhaus and others has found that nurse practitioners are more likely than
medical doctors to practice in rural areas. The study is published in the January
issue of Medical Care, the Journal of the American Public Health Association. As part
of the study,...
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Nurse practitioner patients less costly to Medicare than physician patients
January 6, 2016 – With Medicare enrollment and cost concerns growing, a new study
finds that patients with a nurse practitioner as a primary care provider are less
costly to Medicare than patients with a physician primary care provider. The study—the
first to examine national data—contradicts previous research suggesting that both
types of providers generate...
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