How to find NP positions in Healthcare Insurance

[sylvestrer]

I was wondering if any NP's had any ideas to look for jobs in Healthcare Insurance that could be done from home. In specific I am looking for the ability to be able to coach the insurance members for good health habits.

[PG2018]

What?

[elkpark]

I believe that the insurance companies that offer that kind of support typically use generalist RNs for those jobs, not advanced practice nurses.

[Agriffin2]

You can also do in home risk assessments for insurance. Technically you don't do it from your home but you do get to visit patients and educate them on their healthcare, screenings, and lots of suggestions. Most of my patients are elderly are really do need more education and support that a quickie clinic visit has time for

[carachel2]

Agreed with Agriffin2

The closest I have found in "working from home" as an NP is the in-home Medicare risk assessments. There ARE some things I definitely miss about having an office and actively having my own patient roster. But for me, at this time in my life with an elderly mother and a busy teenager who will be gone from home very soon----this is an ok sacrifice I am willing to make.

There are a few members who don't really want to be seen or are grumpy about it--I let them cancel the visit. The rest are great and they truly appreciate having an NP sit down with them to talk about their health.

As far as work/life balance: I am in *complete* control of my schedule. If I want to work 6 days a week for just four hours at a time = FINE. The combinations are endless.

[Neats, BSN]

I am in NP geriatric school, work at a major insurance company and love where I work. Insurance does hire NP but it is usually for Managerial positions- think Director of Healthcare Operations, Director of Claims, Director of Provider Services...

With that said and with the multiple every changing healthcare arena I see a future of insurances that will hire NP to conduct home health visits to ensure Medicare services, to ensure commercial services are what they seem to be. Think of your self like a surveyor. With the Affordable Care Act and our now qualified health plans the insurance company essentially runs those and I see a need for NP to again educate, case manage those who have the plans. I do not see a great deal of NP just a few that can go out and make medical determinations. The current RN staff in the insurance companies will continue with what they are doing and refer to the NP for the more high cost difficult cases. The same could be said for hospitals who accept Medicare...have NP make house calls to ensure education is being followed, it would save them monies in the long run and place them even more in compliance.

One last new concept I have begun to see is the small rural communities will place a NP on their city staff and that NP will tap into the community with the frequent flyers that place heavy loads on the community in which they live, they run clinics for preventive cares for the area residents, again it is far less expensive to have a NP service a rural area make 100,000 annually and save the community hundreds of thousand of dollars.