Last week the Society, along with the American Medical Association and many other national and state medical societies, sent a letter to Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning language in a recent...
Staffing data from July 1-September 30 must be submitted no later than 45 days from the end of the quarter. The final submission deadline for this quarter is November. Only data successfully submitted by the deadline is considered timely and used on...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted six Continuing Medical Education (CME) modules on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Access them by logging into the Medicare Learning Network Learning Management System ...
The QPP website has been updated to include 2019 Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Payment details. Clinicians and surrogates can now log in to the QPP website using their HARP credentials to see their APM Incentive Payment details. In...
The relationship between physical frailty and regional gray matter volume in the brain was investigated among community-dwelling older Japanese people.
Participants in AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Q&A webinar on Medicare’s Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) had a chance to ask three experts — Steven Buslovich, MD, MS; Rajeev Kumar, MD, FACP, CMD; and Walter...
I recently read a quote that resonated with me: “Here are the real silos: structural pushes and pulls by one group working towards its aims will, in effect, conflict with another group” (BMJ 2016;354:5199). The author was speaking of the conflict...
There are many how-to books on caring for aging adults, but sometimes a book shows up that allows us to indulge our inner adult child. New York City–based cartoonist/author Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (New York:...
The Windy City is calling! Registration for AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s 2020 Annual Conference, set for April 2–5 in Chicago, opens on December 2. Take advantage of early bird registration by December 19 and save.
In the United States alone, an estimated three in 10 individuals fear the possibility of living with advanced dementia, according to one study. Planning whether to discontinue assistance with eating and drinking in the late stages of disease may...
