MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Eric Hasemeier, DO, CMD, the Society’s 2018 Medical Director of the Year, had a clear goal early in his career. “I wanted to go where I was needed,” he says. And the leadership and staff at the 8 Tennessee-based...
You can now log in to the CMS Quality Payment Program website to check your group’s 2018 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Log in to the feature using your Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) credentials Browse to...
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced that they changed the name of the MIPS Advancing Care Information performance category to the Promoting Interoperability performance category. Here are a few things you need...
This week, the House Ways & Means Committee approved seven bipartisan pieces of legislation focused on reducing opioid abuse in Medicare. The package would expand coverage for medication-assisted treatment, promote non-opioid therapies for pain...
This podcast features a roundtable discussion with University of Maryland Nurse Practitoner Doctoral candidates: Nadia Khan, MPH, BSN, RN, Lauren Meekins, RN, and Venessa Ohakam, NP. Template for an Antibiotic Stewardship Policy for PALTC Settings...
In this podcast , Kamal Wagle, MD, MPH, CMD; Dheeraj Mahajan, MD, CMD, and John Derr, RPh discuss deprescribing, patient cost, the 'prescription cascade', and the complexities of controlling prescriptions thru the spectrum of patient care...
This week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed 25 opioid related pieces of legislation to the floor of the House of Representatives. This was just the first of two mark-up hearings the committee will have on whether to send more than 50...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Steven Buslovich, MD, MSHCPM, is not just a geriatrician. Some, he says, call him a “born geriatrician.” So it’s only fitting that someone so passionate about his work would develop innovative technology to improve...
DR. JAGGARD DISCUSSES ADVANCE CARE PLANNING ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (ACP) SERIES A valuable tool in assisting patients and their families in navigating the decisions required for advance care planning in the long-term care, assisted living and other...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week the appointment of 28 members to the new Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force was established to propose updates to best...
