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August 19, 2016

Weekly Roundup
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Observation Status, Federal Regulations, Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation
August 19, 2016
Spotlight: Grading COPD Recommendations Health Policy Advisor: Society Comments on CMS Patient Relationship Categories and Codes Feedback Request; CMS Updates Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings; Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice: Public...

Shot in the Arm for Transfusion Procedures

Anemia, Assisted Living, Long-Term Care, Resident, Risk
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
How can a facility send anemic patients out for blood transfusions without having them admitted to the hospital? This was the challenge Hebrew Home at Riverdale in Bronx, NY, faced, and medical director Zachary Palace, MD, CMD, discovered that some...

For This Medical Student, Program Opens Minds and Doors

Spotlight
Dementia, Patient Centered, Quality, Improvement
August 12, 2016
“A lot of people related to the project on a personal level—they have loved ones who they think could benefit from it. Other people wanted to implement something similar in their own facilities," says Daniel Goltz. Goltz, though still in medical...

Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Policy Snapshot
Care Settings/Types, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
August 19, 2016
The Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a Medicare and Medicaid program that provides comprehensive medical and social services that enable older adults to live in the community instead of a nursing home or other care facility...

Open Payments: Limited Time for Physicians to Dispute 2015 Data

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
August 19, 2016
Open Payments 2015 data was published on June 30; however, you can still review and dispute it. Check your data every year, even if you think nothing was reported about you. If drug or device companies submitted new data from previous years, you can...

Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice: Public Comment Period Ends September 1

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Observation Status, Federal Regulations
August 19, 2016
The public has until September 1 to comment on the revised Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The information collection requirements are not effective until approved under a valid Office of...

CMS Updates Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations
August 19, 2016
On August 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the popular Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Ratings to incorporate new measures. These new measures look at successful discharges, emergency visits, and re-...

Society Comments on CMS Patient Relationship Categories and Codes Feedback Request

Policy Snapshot
Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation
August 19, 2016
As a result of the passage of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now required to establish and use classification code sets: care episode and patient condition groups and...

Multistate Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia Infections - 8/10 Update

Clinical Alerts
Infections, Medication
August 10, 2016
FDA released an updated statement including a voluntary recallExternal Web Site Icon of all of liquid products manufactured by PharmaTech and distributed by: Rugby, Major, Bayshore, Metron, Centurion, and Virtus. Read more .

Physician Compare: 2014 Quality Data Available

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practice Management, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
August 12, 2016
Two new datasets are available through the Physician Compare Downloadable Database : 2014 Physician Quality Report System (PQRS) clinical quality of care performance rates for six measures collected via claims for over 37,000 individual Eligible...