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CMS Proposed Rule Offers New SNF Specialty Measure Set and Other Big Changes

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
July 19, 2018
Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for 2019 . It includes provisions for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for 2019 as well as the physician fee schedule. AMDA...

Pattee Award Recipient Wears Many Hats—Including Educator, Leader

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July 17, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join James Pattee, MD, CMD was a visionary who not only understood the value of the education, training, and certification for physicians practicing post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) medicine; he also realized that...

MIPS 2019 Payment Adjustment Fact Sheet

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
July 13, 2018
CMS posted a fact sheet to help eligible clinicians and groups understand their Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2019 payment adjustment based on their 2017 performance. The fact sheet highlights how CMS assigns final scores to MIPS-...

CMS Proposed Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program

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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), Practitioners, Quality
July 13, 2018
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed changes that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of paperwork that clinicians face when...

QI Award Winner Lives and Breathes Teamwork and Excellence in Resident Care

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July 10, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If the Foundation’s Quality Improvement and Health Outcomes (QIHO) Awards had a face, it might be that of Marian McNamara, RN. She and her colleagues have received this honor four times in the last five years, and...

CMS Data Element Library Webinar — July 11

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
July 5, 2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webinar to provide an overview and demonstration of the Data Element Library (DEL). A resource for providers, vendors, researchers, and other stakeholders that use CMS assessments,...

MIPS Final Scores Available Now from CMS

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
July 5, 2018
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017, your MIPS final score and performance feedback is now available for review on the Quality Payment Program website. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...

From 1 Star to 5 Stars: CMD Takes Facility to New Heights with Help from the Core

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July 3, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Mark E. Williams, MD, CMD, doesn’t back away from challenges. In fact, he seems to relish them. Providing quality care for his patients is his incentive, and the results have been impressive. In three years, he...

Society Joins in Comments on CMS’ Interoperability RFI

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
The Society joined with the LTPAC HIT Collaborative to submit comments in response to CMS’ request for information (RFI) on interoperability. The Collaborative is a public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations,...

14th Annual LTPAC HIT Summit Takes Steps Toward Interoperability in a Value-Based Healthcare World

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
Since 2005, members of the LTPAC HIT Collaborative—a partnership of public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations, providers, policy-makers, researchers, vendors, and professionals with a mission to coordinate the...