Summer is rolling along at ECFC. Thankfully, our June has been busier than May was. Within the next three weeks our state has mandated that all medical claims be filed electronically (July 15). The state has contracted with an organization to allow free access to their Web-based e-filing system. We are awaiting approval to go ahead and begin ...

Florida nurse practitioners are stepping to the plate to work toward controlled substance prescribing rights. This year is the 15th year that NP groups have worked to pass this legislation. The Florida Legislature will soon consider SB 426 and HB 1259, which would allow NPs to prescribe controlled substances as 48 other states do already. NPs in ...

The issue of off-label prescribing has been debated for years. For the first time that I can recall, federal forces seem to be leaning in favor of allowing some wiggle room. In the waning days of the Bush administration, the FDA issued a declaration allowing drug companies to provide information on off-label uses to prescribers. This information ...

For those who know me and those of you who will get to know me through this blog, I am passionate about quite a few things. Topping that list are my children, family, finding a cure for cancer, activism and patient advocacy, to name a few. Therefore, with September being Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, it would only seem fitting to dedicate my ...

Follow nurse practitioner Lois Wessel's lead and make national policy briefings your second job. Wessel wrote a touching and informative article for Tuesday's Washington Post, explaining her position at a mobile health clinic in Silver Spring, Md., and the barriers to care the U.S. health system throws up before her mostly immigrant patients. ...

Have you all been watching AMC's Mad Men, the TV series about a Madison Avenue advertising firm in 1960? The premise explores the lofty question of how we create truth — and sell falsehood. We follow the power of sex, ethnicity and money through each episode. The women wear bullet bras, and the men swill bourbon from bottles kept in their desks. ...