Books & Publications
Books:
Buppert, C. (2005). The
Primary Care Provider's Guide to Compensation and Quality: How to get paid and not get sued. Gaithersburg,
MD: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. Order from http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/0763729582/
Buppert, C. (2008). The
Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide, Gaithersburg,
MD: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. Order from http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/0763733415/
Booklets:
Avoiding malpractice:
10 rules, 5 systems, 20 cases. 79 pages. Published by Law Office
of Carolyn Buppert. $35. Second edition, 2006.
Billing Physician Services Provided by Nurse Practitioners in Specialists' Offices, Hospitals, Nursing Facilities, Homes and Hospice:
171-page book. Published by Law Office of Carolyn Buppert, 2006. $89.
 Negotiating Employment:
63-page book, with self-assessment tools. $45. Published by Law
Office of Carolyn Buppert. Second edition, 2008.
Prescribing: Preventing Legal Pitfalls for NPs: 127 pages. Published by Law Office of Carolyn Buppert, 2006.
Provides detailed recommendations on how to avoid medication-related mishaps, including inappropriate prescribing of controlled substances. $49.
Productivity Incentive Plans for Nurse Practitioners: How and Why (2006): 145 pages. $89. Published by Law Office of Carolyn Buppert, 2006.
Book provides the answers to these questions:
- Why reward productivity?
- How are bonuses structured?
- What are the economies behind productivity plans?
- How can nurse practitioners increase profits for practices?
- What is the process for developing a productivity plan?
- How should the agreement be worded?
- What are the legal condsiderations specific to nurse practitioners?
- What are the business considerations specific to nurse practitioners?
- What emotional factors tend to affect practices considering productivity rewards?
- What are the advantages of using relative value units rather than collections to measure productivity?
- What do employers consider when negotiating salary with nurse practitioners?
Special features include:
Work sheets for nurse practitioners and employers who want to develop a plan.
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Training Modules:
Safe, smart billing
and coding: Evaluation and management. $199.
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The Gold Sheet:
The Gold Sheet is
published monthly from the Law Office of Carolyn Buppert. For a
subscription, send a check for $45 to Law Office of Carolyn Buppert,
7972 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
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The Green Sheet
The Green Sheet is
published monthly from the Law Office of Carolyn Buppert. For a
subscription, send a check for $45 to Law Office of Carolyn Buppert,
7972 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
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Back issues of The Green Sheet and The Gold Sheet are available. Click here to review titles.
Other recent publications:
Buppert, C. (January 2005). Capturing Reimbursement for APN Services in Acute and Critical Care: Legal and Business Considerations. AACN Clinical Issues 16 (1): 23-35.
Buppert, C. (January 2005). Third-party reimbursement for nurse practitioners' services on trauma teams: Working through a maze of issues. Journal of Trauma 58 (1): 206-212.
Buppert, C. (2002, May)
Complying with patient privacy requirements. The Nurse Practitioner
27(5), pp. 12-32.
Buppert, C. (2001, January)
Avoiding Medicare Fraud, Part I. The Nurse Practitioner, Vol. 26,
No. 1, pp. 70-75.
Buppert, C. (2001, February)
Avoiding Medicare Fraud, Part II. The Nurse Practitioner, Vol. 26,
No. 2., pp. 34-41.
Buppert, C. (2001, February)
Progress Notes for NPs: Who is looking at them and what the watchdogs
are looking for. The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners, Vol.
5, No. 2, pp. 27-38.
Buppert, C. (2000, January).
Measuring outcomes in primary care practice, Nurse Practitioner
25 (1), pp. 88-98.
Buppert, C. (1999, January).
HEDIS for the primary care provider: Getting an 'A' on the managed
care report card. The Nurse Practitioner, 24, pp. 84-99.
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