Podcast: Examining headlines from this week.
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Friday, June 10, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs
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Indirect Billing
Care provided by nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA)
can be billed to Medicare directly or under the name of a supervising
physician, referred to as indirect billing.
The latter practice obfuscates the amount of care delivered by these
providers.
In a recent article, Sadiq Patel and coauthors use a novel technique to
determine that the number of indirectly billed visits by NPs and PAs
in fee-for-service Medicare grew from 10.9 million in 2010 to 30.6
million in 2018.
The authors find substantial geographic variation in indirect billing,
with much greater use of indirect billing in states with restricted
scope-of-practice laws for NPs.
Listen to Patel's coauthor, Ateev Mehrotra, discuss their paper
with Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on the most recent episode
of A Health Podyssey.
Next week, Patel will dive into the methods and findings of this
research with Health Affairs Executive Editor Don Metz during June's
virtual Journal Club
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Headlines: Monkeypox, Medicare Trustees Report & Nursing Home Workforce
Shortages
Listen to Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer go over the
big health policy headlines from this week, including what we know about
monkeypox, the implications of the latest Medicare Trustees Report, and
nursing home workforce shortages.
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Daily Digest
Frequency Of Indirect Billing To Medicare For Nurse Practitioner And
Physician Assistant Office Visits
Sadiq Y. Patel et al.
Podcast: Ateev Mehrotra Shines A Light On Indirect Billing
Alan
Weil and Ateev Mehrotra
A Vision For Supporting And Reforming The CDC
Brian J. Miller et al.
Podcast: Headlines: Monkeypox, Medicare Trustees Report & Nursing Home
Workforce Shortages
Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer
What We're Reading
When we're not reading Health Affairs
,
we're looking at the headlines to keep track of how the health care and
health policy space is changing. Here are some of the stories that
caught our attention today.
Caregiver Shortage: 'No pool of people to pull from now'
The Buffalo News
Black and Hispanic People More Likely to Get Inaccurate Blood Oxygen
Readings
Healthline
Medicaid Weighs Attaching Strings to Nursing Home Payments to Improve
Patient Care
Kaiser Health News
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