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Electronic Health Record Adoption and Interoperability Among U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities in 2017

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT) recently released data on electronic health record (EHR) adoption among skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) for 2017. Some highlights from...

Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy for MIPS-Eligible Clinicians Affected by Hurricanes Florence and Michael

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) understands that if you’re a clinician living or practicing in an area affected by Hurricane Florence and/or Hurricane Michael, you may experience difficulties collecting and submitting data for...

CMS Announces Efforts to Improve Patient Safety, Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced upcoming efforts to support better care and outcomes for nursing home residents under the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP). This three-year initiative aims to...

Telemedicine

Navigating PALTC
November 26, 2018
Executive Director Chris Laxton talks about the Society’s new telemedicine position paper and collaboration with the American Medical Association. AMDA's telemedicine position paper AMDA-On-The-Go episode on telemedicine Caring for the Ages article...

Addiction Medicine in PALTC: Speaker to Share Guidance on Care, Respect, Dignity, Recovery

Spotlight
Opioids
November 26, 2018
Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities increasingly are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some are older adults—more like the traditional PALTC patients--and some are younger patients with various...

Society Resolution on Telemedicine Unanimously Passes AMA House of Delegates

Policy Snapshot
November 16, 2018
The Society brought forward a resolution to expand the use of telemedicine in the nursing facility that passed at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates’ (HoD) Interim Meeting in National Harbor, MD. Specifically, the resolution’s...

Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule: CMS Call on November 19

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
November 15, 2018
The CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule final rule is estimated to increase the amount of time doctors and other clinicians spend with their patients by reducing the burden of Medicare paperwork. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

Quality Payment Program: Participation Status Tool Updated

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 15, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool based on calculations from the second snapshot of Medicare Part B claims data to calculate the Alternative Payment Model (APM)...

Quality Payment Program 2017 Performance Results

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 15, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released 2017 performance data for the Quality Payment Program. CMS announced the preliminary data earlier this year, and now has released additional data elements that show significant success...

Annual Conference Is ‘Family’ Reunion for First Registrant

Spotlight
November 14, 2018
If you want proof that the Society really is one family of professionals, look no further than Firas Saidi, MD, CMD, the first registrant for the 2019 annual conference. He achieved this distinction because he went online to confirm his travel dates...