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CMS Takes Steps Toward Interoperability with Release of Data Element Library

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the agency’s first Data Element Library (DEL). The DEL is a new CMS database that supports the exchange of electronic health information. Using this free, centralized...

CMS Announces Updates Related to Nursing Home Compare and Payroll-Based Journal Data

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Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Practitioners
June 28, 2018
Long-Stay Hospitalization Quality Measure The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to focus on reducing hospitalizations to improve the health and safety of nursing home residents. Over the last several years, CMS has...

Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Passes Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

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Hospice, End-of-Life, Palliative Care, Practitioners
June 28, 2018
This week the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee held a mark =-up hearing that included The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). H.R. 1676, introduced by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Buddy...

QI Award-Winning Project Focuses on Role of Risk Assessment in Falls Prevention

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June 26, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Every day, post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners look at problems and challenges and think “What if?” This leads to innovative, creative solutions and, in Allison Gustavson’s case, a Society Quality...

CMS Issues Request for Information on Self-Referral Law

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
In line with the Administration’s goals to continue to remove administrative burdens, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on how the physician self-referral law (better known as the Stark Law)...

Secretary Azar Responds to Alternative Payment Model Proposals

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar responded to a number of Alternative Payment Model (APM) proposals recommended by the Physician-Focused Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC). While the secretary felt very...

SNF Provider Preview Report: Review Your Data by July 1

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Care Settings/Types, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports are now available. Visit the Spotlights and Announcements webpage for a list of quality measures based on quarterly data. Make sure to review your performance data by July 1, prior to public...

Quality Payment Program Look-Up Tool Updated

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Quality Payment Program Look-Up Tool with 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility and Qualifying Alternative Payment Model (APM) Participant (QP) data...

Submit Your Most Interesting Topic as a Proposal for the 2019 Annual Conference

Spotlight
June 21, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We want people to roll up their sleeves and talk medicine at this meeting,” says Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, about the Society’s 2019 Annual Conference, set for March 7-10 in Atlanta, GA. There is still time to...

CMS to Host IMPACT Act: Frequently Asked Questions Call — June 21

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Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Quality
June 15, 2018
Thursday, June 21 from 2 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, learn more about the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (...