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House Hearing Focuses on Nursing Home Safety and Quality

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Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Practitioners, Quality
September 6, 2018
This week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (E&C) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled “Examining Efforts to Ensure Quality of Care and Resident Safety in Nursing Homes.” The purpose of the hearing was...

Flu Vaccination Resources

Influenza
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine encourages post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities to strengthen their employee immunization programs to protect employees and patients. The Society has updated its guidance on...

California Member Reflects on Lessons Learned from Wildfires

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August 29, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join While the recent wildfires struck a part of California hundreds of miles away from his home and facility, they reminded Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD, of a time not long ago when a similar disaster threatened his...

Common But Undertreated: Webinar Addresses Anemia in the Elderly

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Anemia
August 15, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Anemia is a common problem in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) that often gets ignored or dismissed. T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, MACP, AGSF, wants to change that. “Anemia isn’t an illness, rather an indicator of an...

Application Period Begins for Participation in the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Incentive Arrangement Demonstration

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
August 9, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting applications for participation in the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Incentive Arrangement (MAQI) Demonstration. The MAQI Demonstration is designed to test whether exempting...

Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Understanding 3 Key Topics Listening Session from CMS — August 22

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
August 9, 2018
Proposed changes to the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule would increase the amount of time doctors and other clinicians spend with their patients by reducing the burden of Medicare paperwork. During this listening session on Wednesday, August 22, from...

Quality Payment Program: 2017 MIPS Performance Feedback and Payment Adjustment

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP)
August 9, 2018
If you submitted 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data through the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website, go online to view your performance feedback and MIPS final score. Log in using your Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM)...

Quality Payment Program Hardship Exception Applications Due by December 31

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
August 9, 2018
The 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Exception Applications for the Merit-based Incentive System (MIPS) Promoting Interoperability performance category and for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances are available. Submit a hardship exception...

CMS Reinvestment Program Offers Unique Opportunity for Quality of Life Innovations

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August 8, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We appreciate the opportunity to work with the Society and post-acute and long-term care [PALTC] practitioners,” says Stephanie Davis, MS, RD, chief of the LTC Certification & Enforcement Branch at the Centers...

CMS to Host Webinar on MIPS Quality Performance Category for Year 2 (2018) on August 6

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
August 2, 2018
CMS officials will host a webinar outlining requirements for quality reporting under the 2018 (Year 2) Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) on Monday, August 6, from 1-2 pm. The webinar will cover topics including category requirements,...