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National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care Achieves Goals to Reduce Unnecessary Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Homes

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Antipsychotics
October 6, 2017
On October 2, the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care announced that it met its goal of reducing the national prevalence of antipsychotic use in long-stay nursing home residents by 30 percent by the end of 2016. It also announced a new...

Caring, Comprehension, and Coding: Webinar Speaker Seeks To Boost Confidence, Ease Worries

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Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Regulations, Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes
October 6, 2017
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Physicians and other post-acute/long-term care (PALTC) practitioners want to do the right thing, but keeping up with changing rules and regulations within the industry can be challenging. In an upcoming Society...

Quality Payment Program: View Recordings of Recent CMS Webinars

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP)
September 29, 2017
Unable to participate in a recent Quality Payment Program (QPP) webinar? View all recordings, presentations, and transcripts on the QPP Events webpage . Recent webinars: August 16: QPP Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Office Hours Session – Detailed...

Quality Payment Program: New CMS Resources Available

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP)
September 29, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) posted new and updated resources on the Quality Payment Program: 2018 Self-Nomination Toolkit for QCDRs & Registries : Step-by-step instructions for potential Qualified Registry and Qualified...

Senate Passes CHRONIC Care Act

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
September 29, 2017
This week, the Senate unanimously passed the CHRONIC Care Act (S.870), a bill which includes bipartisan policies to improve the Medicare program by targeting traditional fee-for-service, Medicare Advantage, and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs...

Honor Had Impact Beyond Expectations for Medical Director of the Year

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Medical Director
September 29, 2017
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Being named the Society’s 2017 Medical Director of the Year (MDOY) had a greater impact than Joshua Schor, MD, CMD, Medical Director at New Jersey-based Daughters of Israel, could have imagined. “I have a resident...

September 22, 2017

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Advance Care Planning, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicaid, Payment, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality
September 22, 2017
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Hill Day is Productive, Enlightening, Enjoyable for Society Leaders HPA: Society Expresses Concern Over Graham-Cassidy Legislation; Society Members Urged to Check the 2016 PQRS and QRUR Reports; Health...

Template for an Antibiotic Stewardship Policy for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings

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Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Antibiotics/Antimicrobials
September 18, 2017
In response to a rising concern for multidrug resistance and Clostridium difficile infections, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) will require all long-term care (LTC) facilities to establish an antibiotic stewardship program by...

REMINDER: CMS Nursing Home Facility Assessment Tool and State Operations Manual Revisions Call — September 7

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, F-Tags, Survey, Surveyor Guidance
September 1, 2017
Thursday, September 7 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, learn about the new Facility Assessment Tool to help identify and develop the specific assessment of your facility. Also, find out about...

Participate in Quality Payment Program Website Testing

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
September 1, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites representatives from organizations of all sizes to assess current and future functionality of the Quality Payment Program website , as well as make recommendations for improvements. We...