A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO ADVANCE CARE PLANNING DISCUSSIONS

White Paper

Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives

March 7, 2017

AMDA- THE SOCIETY FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE MEDICINE

WHITE PAPER A17

SUBJECT: A Practitioner’s Guide to Advance Care Planning Discussions

in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting

INTRODUCED BY: Ethics subcommittee and Advance Care Planning Work Group

INTRODUCED ON: MARCH 2017

PURPOSE

The purpose of this White Paper is to highlight the importance of Advance Care Planning conversations and informed medical decision-making in the PA/LTC setting. Additionally, the White Paper will serve to delineate the prerequisites and key elements necessary to the adequate performance of an Advance Care Planning visit under the CMS billing codes, 99497 and 99498, which were implemented beginning January 1, 2016.

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that AMDA—The Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to start and maintain a record, by name, of each of the designated medical directors and associate medical directors of all the nation’s nursing homes, tied to the care communities they serve.

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