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If you are an eligible clinician participating in the Quality Payment Program, you can submit your 2017 performance data using the new feature on the Quality Payment Program website. The 2017 data submission period runs through March 31 with two...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had developed a video that demonstrates a new Quality Payment Program website feature for the Merit-Based Incentive Program (MIPS). This feature allows users from groups who submit Quality...
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 to: Examine clinical workflows and data collection...
For the second year in a row, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care medicine is a collaborator for the HIMMS18 conference in Las Vegas, NV March 5-9. The conference is the major health information technology (HIT) event that bring...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Each day, 10,000 people turn 65; and they enter a phase of life that includes multimorbidty, functional impairment, and transitions from the hospital to PALTC facilities. While a growing number of practitioners...
Full Set of Pocket Guides – Set of all 7 The complete set of pocket guides describes the critical decision points in the management of common conditions found in the PALTC population and incorporates current information and best practices for use by...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Having completed fellowships in geriatrics and infectious diseases, Theresa Rowe, DO, MS, knows all about the importance of understanding and controlling infections in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC)...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) Annual Update Pre-Publication Document , which describes changes in the standards and code set versions used in the updated measures...
This Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demo, available here , shows users a new qpp.cms.gov feature. This feature will allow a user from a group who submits their Quality Measures for the purposes of Merit-Based Incentive Program (...
National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Tuesday, March 20 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, gain insight on the phase two changes for person-...
