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Home Health Care Face-to-Face Encounter Requirements

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy F12 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA-Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine refer to its Public Policy Committee the changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Face-to-Face Requirements for Home Care Certification...

Portable X-Ray Ordering by Non-Physicians

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Policy G12 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine work with similarly concerned parties and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to address the apparent limitations of the recent Office of...

Improving Access to Physicians with the Special Skills Required in Geriatric Care Policy

Resolution and Position Statements
Long-Term Care, Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Policy B-13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine advocate to the American Medical Association encouraging them to explore strategies for how to best improve access to, and the availability of, high-...

Exclusion of Medical Providers in Long Term Care from Accountable Care Organizations Primary Care Physician Restriction

Resolution and Position Statements
Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy C13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the appropriate parties to allow medical providers in long term care and Medical Directors of nursing facilities to participate in...

Social Media in Long Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements
Long-Term Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy I-13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine Board of Directors create a task force to develop a social media policy relevant to long term care.

Treating E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Products

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Policy A-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, AMDA—Dedicated to Long-Term Care Medicine support treating e-cigarettes as tobacco products with the subsequent restrictions inherent with all tobacco products within post-acute and long-term care...

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Policy D-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state chapters promote the Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm by supporting education about, dissemination and...

Appropriate Use of Quality Indicators in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Population

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy F-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other stakeholders to address the issue of appropriate use of Quality...

Practical Tools in the Long-Term Care Continuum

Resolution and Position Statements
Practice Management, Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy G-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine develop mechanisms to create, aggregate and promote easy access to existing and new practical tools for use in the post-acute and long-term care continuum.

Using the BEERS Criteria for Drug Utilization Review (DUR) and Medication Therapy Management (MTM)

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Medication, Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy H-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine support the autonomy of individual prescribers which allows medical treatment plans with potentially Beers Criteria inappropriate medications when...