On July 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its first monthly update of data that provides a snapshot of the impact of COVID-19 on the Medicare population. For the first time, the snapshot includes data for American...
The Medicare Learning Network is hosting a call on September 10 from 1:30 to 3:00 PM ET, Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences. During this call, you’ll be able to gain insight on approaches to care for residents living with...
The Medicare Learning Network is hosting a call on September 10 from 1:30 to 3:00 PM ET, Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences. During this call, you’ll be able to gain insight on approaches to care for residents living with...
Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responded to an inquiry from Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) regarding underperforming nursing homes. CMS sent them a list of nursing homes with a recorded pattern of poor...
On Tuesday, April 2, the House Education & Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will hold a hearing, Examining Surprise Billing: Protecting Patients from Financial Pain. Surprise billing has become an issue Congress is...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join As chair of the Annual Conference Program Planning Subcommittee, Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, is always talking and listening to Society members about what issues and kinds of education they want and need. For...
On March 11, the president released to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The budget request proposes significant reductions to Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years. The president’s budget is non-binding. Congress will now develop...
Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT) and Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA), and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes coverage of skilled nursing care for certain patients, resulting...
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine joined the American Medical Association and more than 100 national and state medical societies asking Congress to ease the burden on patients as potential legislation is developed to...
Executive Director Chris Laxton discusses the society’s opioid policies. The Society's opioid policies Pain Management Task Force draft report CDC’s Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain CDC opioid guideline page
