title: Third party reimbursement for nurses in advanced practice.
abstract: The author contends that nursing has a challenge ahead: to educate consumers, legislators, and insurance companies that nurses in advanced practice are cost-effective and provide quality care. The author describes her own legislative struggle with Blue Cross/Blue Shield. She urges nurses to attain the potential inherent in the clinical nurse specialist role by becoming actively involved in advocation for third-party reimbursement.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sebastian
mesh_terms: D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000191:economics*; D011057:Politics; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States