lisadavis

my office is in the middle of our 7 county coverage area. my home is at one end of the coverage area. if i see a patient between my home and the office i claim the miles from home to office and bill it to client funding source. if i do not see a client then i do not charge the 55 miles to office. same thing for going home. now if the patient i see is on other side of office then i bill all the miles home to client only if the office is not open when i start my trip. technically you cannot charge miles from a closed office. if the office is open then i only charge the miles from the office to client's home. i too have been told no one gets paid to drive to and from work but i think this is a bogus statement that higher ups apply to home care nurses and should not because part of our job is driving......you cannot get to a client's home without driving:cool:

i think nursing is like sounding the fire alarm in a crowed building, everyone scrambling for the exits all at once running down whoever gets in our way. nursing as not yet become a "CAREER" in the eyes of the world, we are looked upon as sex kittens, battle axes and stepping stones to MD's. how many times have you heard, "why didn't you just go all the way and become a doctor?" we are all trying so hard to get to the top, to make something of our lives and our chosen profession we don't care who or what we destroy along the way. some of this behavior is inherently human and some of it is very female(even if we don't want to admit it) then on top of all this we have bosses, administrators etc that rule by the motto, "divide and conquer" if everyone keeps fighting amongst themselves no one will notice how the 'bosses' are screwing them. these problems have existed for a long time and will not be solved overnight but if we all try to do our own little part to act professional maybe someday we will be .