Current Issues: Updates   

Controlled Substances

• Alert on DPS Permits for Controlled Substances

Early Warnings

• Category 5 Threats Blow Toward Texas

Medicaid

• Medicaid Rate Increases Beginning September 1, 2007 New
• Medicaid Rate Increase for APNs in Texas, effective March 1, 2006

National Provider Identifier (NPI)

• Get Your NPI Now

Prescriptive Authority

• Closing the Gaps in 2009 with Nursing Board-Granted Prescriptive Authority
      a slide presentation
  
• Ending TMB Notification of Prescriptive Authority Delegation:
        What Does It Really Mean?
• Alert on DPS Permits for Controlled Substances

Sunset Review

• Sunset Review Raises Issues for Nursing
• The BNE Sunset Issues