Allied Health Professionals' Resources

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Policy Snapshot
April 19, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study, as outlined in the Quality Payment Program Year 2 final rule (CMS 5522- FC). CMS is conducting this study to:...
Policy Snapshot
April 19, 2018
This week, AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine joined with the American Medical Association and over 40 national medical specialty societies in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the 2018...
Spotlight
April 17, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join It seems only fitting that Alice Bonner, PhD, APRN, GNP, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, is the first nurse practitioner (NP) to serve on the Society Board of Directors since the organization opened...
Policy Snapshot
April 12, 2018
National Health Care Decisions Day educates the public and providers about the importance of Advance Care Planning (ACP). Did you know that ACP services can be billed to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule? The Society’s Guide to Post-Acute and Long...
Policy Snapshot
April 12, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an updated MIPS Participation Lookup Tool to check on your 2018 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Just enter your National Provider Identifier to find...
Podcasts
April 10, 2018
In this podcast , Suzanne M. Gillespie MD, RD, CMD, FACP, AGSF is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics/Aging and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr...
Podcasts
January 4, 2018
In our first podcast , AMDA-On-The-Go host, Dr. Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, FACP, interviews Dr. Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD. The topic of discussion is the JAMDA article "Effects of Legal Access to Cannabis on Scheduled II–V Drug Prescriptions". Dr...
Podcasts
March 21, 2018
This podcast features a discussion with Arif Nazir, MD, FACP, CMD, AGSF , one of the authors of the JAMDA article "The Prevalence of Burnout Among Nursing Home Physicians: An International Perspective". Dr. Nazir is currently the vice-president of...
This package includes the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG), Pain Implementation Manual and the Pain Management Pocket Guide. The CPG provides a foundation for a systematic approach to the recognition, assessment, treatment and...
This package includes the Heart Failure Clinical Practice Guideline, Heart Failure Implementation Manual and the Heart Failure Pocket Guide. Heart failure is one of the most common reasons for new or recurrent hospitalizations among persons over 65...