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.

PrescribingNegotiating 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:

Productivity Incentive
  • 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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Newsletters
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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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