Help Please,How to Become Private Duty Nurse!!!!

U.S.A. Wisconsin

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Can some one tell me the step by stepaction I need to do to become a private duty nurse in Milwaukee and open up my own business. I need to know if i need a tax number, do i insurance, how long can I work in the business without workers do I need an outside office or can i run it from home. Please help!!!! Do i need both medicare and medicaid patients or just private pay or both.

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Have you worked PDN at all, or are you wanting to start from scratch? I would suggest hiring on with an agency if you've never done it before, so you know what the job entails before hanging out your own shingle.

I would go ahead and get the Tax ID number and start the process of becoming a provider for Badgercare, those will be handy to have no matter what path you take

shlay51

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I currently work as a PDN through an agency and prior to working with an agency I was a self employed PDN. i would highly recommend going through an agency. I wasn't too involved in all the paperwork because there was also a case manager working with the same family and she handle that aspect, but billing was awful and because I was billing medicaid directly and getting paid by them taxes weren't taken out so I had to pay in. You do need a tax id #. You also have to get certified by the state in order to be a self employed PDN. this is the site I did all my billing through & got my cert, along with my tax id. https://www.forwardhealth.wi.gov/WIPortal/ it's not the easiest site to navigate unfortunately, but at least there are numbers you can call to help you figure out everything you need to do. Hope this helps.

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