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help! i am thinking about becoming an independent medicaid and private pay home health nurse, i have been working in the home health field for 3 yrs. i have the provider packet from medicaid, but it does not give much info. anyone know of a good resource on policy, procedure, guidelines, covered expenses, pay scale????? any help will be greatly appreciated. email: [email protected]

Thanks!!!! I could really use the help!!!!!!

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Specializes in Case Management, Homecare, LTC, hospital.

Is Professional Homecare Providers a good organization? I am interested in private duty nursing in Wisconsin. I attempted to email them twice and received no response. There is no phone number listed on the website.

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Specializes in private-duty, hospital, LTC, clinic.

Procedure codes: vent-dependent 99504, non-vent s9123, these are for RN's. It doesn't matter what you do while you are working, as far as charging your hours. This is for WI, possibly national.

The professional homecare providers is a really good resource if you live in WI. There is an annual conference on Oct. 14th at 1pm, at the Kalahari Resort Hotel in WI. Dells. CPR and vent recert are on the 15th. It is only $50.00 per year for membership dues, cheap. Of course the recerts are at cost. Try emailing them again, not sure why you didn't hear back, always prompt for me. Years of knowledge and

experience to share, very helpful for the private-duty nurse in WI.

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Specializes in Private Duty, L&D.
is professional homecare providers a good organization? i am interested in private duty nursing in wisconsin. i attempted to email them twice and received no response. there is no phone number listed on the website.

i joined php just under a year ago but i've never needed to contact them. they were very prompt to take my membership monies and accept me as a member tho! i do private duty/independent nursing in wisconsin. you have to sign up with the state's website to get your npi number.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I am an RN in NY and have 1.5 year's experience in home care working for an agency. I've read alot of postings on this site talking about being medicaid and medicare certified if you want to go into private duty nursing. I am very much interested in finding out what I have to do to go into independent private duty nursing and wonder if I can start without being medicaid or medicare certified? I'm starting from square one, I do have an accountant and a financial advisor and would love to work with the elderly. I heard from agencies that provide home health aides that there is a great need for RN's to provide aide supervisions. I'd like to work independently but can I start here without any special certifications? Can anyone tell me where to start? There seems to be alot of information but I've been spinning my wheels for the last few hours on-line and don't seem to be getting anywhere (although I did find this site which has been full of information but haven't stumbled upon exactly what I'm looking for). Thank you. Any information would be much appreciated. I can't tell if I need anything more than a current license to do this. Any samples of client contracts, permission forms, and/or forms required to provide care, care plans established by MD's, etc.? Meanwhile, I'll just keep looking . . . .. Jan

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I am an RN in NY and have 1.5 year's experience in home care working for an agency. I've read alot of postings on this site talking about being medicaid and medicare certified if you want to go into private duty nursing. I am very much interested in finding out what I have to do to go into independent private duty nursing and wonder if I can start without being medicaid or medicare certified? I'm starting from square one, I do have an accountant and a financial advisor and would love to work with the elderly. I heard from agencies that provide home health aides that there is a great need for RN's to provide aide supervisions. I'd like to work independently but can I start here without any special certifications? Can anyone tell me where to start? There seems to be alot of information but I've been spinning my wheels for the last few hours on-line and don't seem to be getting anywhere (although I did find this site which has been full of information but haven't stumbled upon exactly what I'm looking for). Thank you. Any information would be much appreciated. I can't tell if I need anything more than a current license to do this. Any samples of client contracts, permission forms, and/or forms required to provide care, care plans established by MD's, etc.? Meanwhile, I'll just keep looking . . . .. Jan

Hi - you're 1st step is to go into emedny & call customer service - it's all done through them - you'll need an NPI# & then you will be eligible to get a provider id# so you can be reimbursed by medicaid. You can begin once you have an NPI# but you can't be reimbursed until you have your provider id#. There are cases where an insurance company will reimburse you - not medicaid (only came across one myself in 1.5 yrs) - but you would still need an NPI# To the best of my knowledge supervising home health aides is not what you would be doing (I could be wrong) - but you would be performing homecare on people that is at the level of RN and/or LPN.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Thanks for the info. Lisa1203. I did go to emedny. It took a little bit of investigating but I finally found some info on how to obtain an NPI#. I couldn't do anything before I figure out how to get an NPI# as Medicaid requires you have one before you fill out any of their paperwork. Supervising aides is a big need these days, especially in my area. I've been approached by 4 different agencies for aide supervisions and training aides and you need to be an RN to do so (the agencies tell me). Unfortunately, these are all per diem positions, do not pay much, and the agencies do not want to pay benefits. These are mainly chronic cases, DD, and permanently physically disabled. I also got alot of information from the other related postings re: registries and forms. Thanks so much!!

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Where do I start to get a tax ID #? I am one of those people who just have so much responsibility that any help anyone is willing to offer, I will gladly lean that way. I have been taken advantage of in the past in working for an agency and that is what I was thinking of doing again (the easy way out). Thanks in advance for any words of advice.

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Where do I start to get a tax ID #? I am one of those people who just have so much responsibility that any help anyone is willing to offer, I will gladly lean that way. I have been taken advantage of in the past in working for an agency and that is what I was thinking of doing again (the easy way out). Thanks in advance for any words of advice.

Use your ss#. Good luck!! I called emedny so much to pull info out of them. Call back if you don't feel satisfied with the answer - some reps are blunt & some explain things a lot more.

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Where do I start to get a tax ID #? I am one of those people who just have so much responsibility that any help anyone is willing to offer, I will gladly lean that way. I have been taken advantage of in the past in working for an agency and that is what I was thinking of doing again (the easy way out). Thanks in advance for any words of advice.

Use your ss#. Good luck!! I called emedny so much to pull info out of them. Call back if you don't feel satisfied with the answer - some reps are blunt & some explain things a lot more.
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Hi I am a LPN and live in NY and Is VERY interested in going independent. My question is can this be done as a visiting nurse? I've done this for about 5 years with a home care agency and love doing it. Also I would welcome guidance fron you all also. I have been reading all the blogs and from that I applied for my NPI number last night and woke up to a email with my number. That was less than 24hrs. This morning I filled out for the Med. Provider # I nOw have to submit the hard copies. So things are moving pertty fast but that's a good thing. So please respond with suggestions. I am excited about moving forward. Thanks in advance.

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I'm reading your post - but forgive me - i'm ignorant about what a visiting nurse is - do you mean just check up on people to make sure things are going well? I have no idea - I hope someone reading this does. As far as I know I see ads looking for various shifts for bedside type care.

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