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

Spotlight
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

Policy Snapshot
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)...

SNF Provider Preview Report: Review Your Data by July 1

Policy Snapshot
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

Policy Snapshot
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

Policy Snapshot
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 (...

CMS Releases Roadmap to Combat the Opioid Crisis

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medication, Opioids, Pain Management, Practitioners
June 15, 2018
Although some progress has been made in efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate the crisis is not slowing down. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program Exchange Function Analyses Report Now Available

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
June 15, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a technical report to provide additional details on the empirical analyses that were considered when developing and finalizing the logistic exchange function that will be used to...

Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes: Trend Update

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Antipsychotics, Practitioners
June 15, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage...

AMA HoD Passes Policy to Develop PALTC Alternative Payment Models

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Practitioners
June 15, 2018
At its Annual House of Delegates (HoD) meeting, the American Medical Association (AMA) passed policy to develop post-acute/long-term care (PALTC)-specific alternative payment models (APMs). Rajeev Kumar, MD, CMD, the Society’s delegate to the AMA,...