The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently posted Advisory Opinion 22-20, approving an acute care hospital’s arrangement under which its ...
Advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and registered nurses are able to provide many services traditionally performed by physicians with comparable outcomes regarding treatment, ...
That said, there are two issues getting in the way of hospitals fully employing nurse practitioners as a meaningful solution. Dr. Kapu said there is not widespread understanding among hospitals and ...
In one of the final advisory opinions of 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) took a broad view that a hospital's provisions of care by nurse ...