Rachel Yates is a registered nurse with nearly a decade of clinical experience, including trauma surgical ICU and virtual nursing. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Purdue University Northwest and is completing her Master of Science in Nursing in executive nurse leadership at Purdue University Global, where she was inducted into Alpha Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for first-generation college students.
She is the founder and chief executive officer of Premier Care Coordination, a nurse-led virtual care coordination company. The company partners with primary care practices to deliver Medicare community health integration, principal illness navigation services, and chronic care management.
Rachel has written in Medical Economics on how new Medicare care coordination codes could transform care for vulnerable patients and is a recognized voice on the gap between federal health care policy and practice-level implementation. She shares professional updates on LinkedIn, with company updates available through Premier Care Coordination on LinkedIn.
Walk into any independent primary care practice and ask the nurse what she did on her lunch break. There’s a good chance she’ll tell you she was on the phone with the daughter of a dementia patient, calling the dialysis center to sort out a transportation problem, or following up on the discharge med rec for the COPD patient who landed in the ED again last week. None of it …
Medicare will pay for the work your nurses already do
In my years as an ICU nurse, I learned to recognize a pattern. The patients I cared for in trauma surgical intensive care often arrived after a cascade of preventable events. A missed medication. A symptom that went unaddressed. A follow-up appointment that never happened. By the time they reached my unit, the question was no longer how to keep them well at home. It was how to bring them …
Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused
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