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2015 PQRS Feedback Reports and 2015 Annual QRURs Available

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
September 30, 2016
2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Feedback Reports and 2015 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) are available. The PQRS Feedback Reports show your program year 2015 PQRS reporting results, including payment adjustment...

CMS Hosts SNF Value-Based Purchasing Open Door Forum

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
September 30, 2016
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted an Open Door Forum to provide details about the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Value-Based Purchasing Program (VBP). The program enacted under the Protecting Access to Medicare...

CMS Releases Final Conditions of Participation Rule for Long-Term Care Facilities

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, F-Tags
September 30, 2016
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to make major changes to improve the care and safety of the nearly 1.5 million residents in the more than 15,000 long-term care facilities that participate in the...

Society Leaders Climb the Hill, Come Down with Contacts, Connections, Influence

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Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Observation Status, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
September 30, 2016
With a contentious election just weeks away, Society leaders hit Capitol Hill to address issues including advance care planning and the three-day inpatient stay requirement. “We had several goals going in, and we accomplished a lot,” says Society...

From the Hill: PAC Provider Groups Advocate for Changes to SNF VBP

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Skilled Nursing Care
September 23, 2016
This week a number of post-acute care provider groups sent a letter to Ways and Means Committee leaders advocating for major changes to the Medicare Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing Act (H. R. 3298). This bipartisan bill would establish a...

2015 Annual QRURs CMS Webcast — September 29

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
September 23, 2016
Thursday, September 29 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. In mid-September 2016, CMS will make 2015 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs)...

CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Models 2-4 Report Released

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
September 23, 2016
The second Annual Report recently released, provides a summative and formative evaluation of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative Models 2-4 and is based on the multiple...

Take the Challenge - From Chris Laxton

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Infections, Patient Centered, Quality
September 23, 2016
"People working in post-acute and long-term care are some of the most innovative, creative people in the world. They are stretched for resources and time and deal with the most vulnerable, complex frail elders. But they solve problems that others...

September 16, 2016

Weekly Roundup
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Oral Health, Practice Management, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Pressure Ulcers
September 16, 2016
Spotlight: Webinar Turns Education into Oral Health Success HPA: NEW CMS Overview of the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program MLN Matters® Article; SNF QRP Provider Training Questions and Feedback on MDS 3.0; New Data: 49 States Plus DC Reduce...

September 9, 2016

Weekly Roundup
Advance Care Planning, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Observation Status, Infections, Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Antibiotics/Antimicrobials, Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practice Management, Meaningful Use, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Practitioners, Urinary Incontinence
September 9, 2016
Spotlight: UTI Study Presents Opportunity to be on Cutting Edge HPA: CMS Announces Plans to Eliminate MIPS Penalties; SNF 30-Day Potentially Preventable Readmission Measure — Updated; Advance Care Planning Fact Sheet from CMS; Observation Stays...