Reimbursement and Costs of a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in a High‐Volume Emergency Department
Swetha R Singh, Jill Suttles, Nancy Theado‐Miller, Tanya R Gure, Meera Bhatt, Elizabeth L Savage, Lauren T Southerland · 2026
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Swetha Singh and six co-authors examine what a specialist nurse service for older patients costs and earns in a busy emergency department, in this 2026 study. Older adults visit emergency rooms often, and guidelines urge a full check of memory, movement, medicines, and daily function during the visit. Such checks have been shown to cut repeat visits and admissions, yet few departments have a geriatric specialist on hand.
One answer is a nurse practitioner trained in older-adult care who performs the assessments. The open question is money: does the billing the nurse generates cover the cost of the post? The authors lay out the payment and cost figures for one high-volume department. Their accounting helps hospital leaders judge whether better care for older patients can also pay for itself.
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| CREATOR | Swetha R Singh, Jill Suttles, Nancy Theado‐Miller, Tanya R Gure, Meera Bhatt, Elizabeth L Savage, Lauren T Southerland |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |