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I cover for a busy clinic practice every 5th weekend or so. This is part of my "on call" schedule with my employer. Anyway, I have been sent to the ER to evaluate pts and have gotten calls re: patients in the ER. I have given admitting orders for man...

Hi, I am just wondering if there are any pain management NPs out there. If so, what is your role? thanks

Thanks for the replies. There was an ad for a pain management NP out pt. no weekends or holidays! wasn't sure what it entailed

Does anyone know how much a hospital/physician gets paid to insert a PICC line using ultrasound or fluro? thanks

Are nurse practitioners allowed to see medical assistant patients in the hospital? My billing people are saying that we will not get paid for a NP visit in the hospital, only if seen in the office. They say that medical assistance requires a doctor ...

I am curious to know how many NPs have their DEA license. I was planning on applying for one but decided against it when I found out it would cost over 500 dollars. Any advice? Thanks. Oh, I work in cardiology ( I see both hospital inpatient as well ...

WOW, you guys are fantastic and this site is awesome. Thank you all so much

I am curious to know of any good resources for pharm. Now that I am "practicing" I am wondering if there are any pocket type "bullets" for prescribing. Stuff like if pt has this and is allergic to that give this or PO equivilants (conversions) for I...

I am relatively new and have some questions re: to billing under my # and the doctors. I am sure some one out there has the answers. 1.) Can an NP see a new patient on her/his own or does the dr. have to see new patients ( in the office). 2.) Curren...

"however, medicare requires that the doctor see new patients and they will only let the midlevel bill at 100% if the midlevel is treating the patient for an illness/disease for which the patient has already seen the doctor." i'm confused. what about...

:icon_rollOk, I know this is probably a really corny question but here it goes :icon_roll My boss is getting business cards made up for me and asked me how I wanted them written. Should it just be "Nancy Nurse, C.R.N.P." or "Nancy Nurse, M.S.N., C.R....

I'm on the "other side" of the state. NEPA (Poconos area).

I think there is actually a "sample" or template of a collaborative agreement posted on the Pennsylvania BON website. What part of PA are you from? Just curious as I am from PA too.

I am unable to get to the page that both of the links lead to. It must be my computer but I don't know how to fix it. thanks

I would love to be able to review the worksheets that David's link leads to, but for some reason I am unable to pull up the page. Can you either repost the links or post the sheets? Thanks

I am wondering if anyone knows of any websites, books etc that may have some case studies (esp cardiac) that I can use. I am a new NP and new to cardiology as well (6 months). I am at the point now where things are settling down and I can now focus o...

Can someone help shed some light on this situation. I work for a cardiologist in Pennsylvania and he does stress tests in his office (adenosine, dobutamine and exercise). Can an NP be the "licensed practitioner" supervising the tests or does it have ...

This is a great site, thanks. Can you help me understand it? LOL There is the facility charge, the facility limiting charge and the conversion factor. Do I add the facility charge and the conversion factor today to get the payment amount or do I sub...

Thank you all for the great replies. The "fuss" I am referring to has to do with CMS not directly stating "yes" and the board of nursing not specifically stating that the NP can or can't do them. My office manager is leary about having me be the only...

I saw an ad for an NP to work for a nursing home. I was wondering if anyone is doing this and if so, what is it like? Do you like it? Is there enough variety and patient needs to warrent a practitioner on a full time daily basis or do you do alot of ...

I am a new NP. I work for a cardiologist that covers with a primary care group. On call consists of covering the office calls after hours as well as rounding on patients in 3 local hospitals (~ 20 mi radius) on the weekends. The census has been runni...

Thanks for your replies. There is physician back up but by phone only. I do the actual rounding and note writing on the patients. This includes admissions, ER, consults and discharges. Another question I have is, How much do you (everyone else :wink...

where can I find out how much insurance companies, medicare etc cover for services without actually asking the billing person in my office? I am paid by the hour but would like to know approximately what I "bring in". It may help in future negotiatio...

I just found out that PAs in my state must have a bachelor's degree (it can be in anything) then take 3 semesters of classroom(didactic), then 3 semesters of clinicals.

"But when a patient has multiple allergies that eat through your formulary this program gives me multiple options" Can you explain this please? I have the free trial version of epocrates and am not familiar with this feature or how it works. thanks:...