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Wages, training pipelines, and retention — the labor economics underneath every clinical encounter.
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- Who is enrolled in Medicare? The nurse practitioner is now the most common clinician
413,539 nurse practitioner enrollments make NPs the single most common clinician type in Medicare's provider-enrollment file — 13.9% of all 2.98 million PECOS records, nearly triple the largest physician specialty. Together, NPs and physician assistants are one in five enrollments. Advanced-practice providers now anchor the Medicare workforce.
2026-06-11 · 11 min - Zero-RN days: how often US nursing homes ran a day with no registered nurse on the floor
In the CMS Payroll-Based Journal's 2025 Q2 snapshot, 5.86% of nursing-home facility-days with residents present recorded zero registered-nurse direct-care hours — 77,542 days across 5,062 facilities. The rate ranged from 27.9% in Louisiana to 0.2% in Rhode Island. Days before the federal staffing floor was rescinded, this is the baseline the country now keeps.
2026-06-04 · 18 min
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