Eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) that wish to use the streamlined hardship exception application must submit their application by July 1, 2016. The streamlined hardship applications reduce the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) issued a letter on May 25, 2016 , commenting on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule relating to payment updates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The letter,...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites the public to join an upcoming listening session to learn more about the Resource Use performance category, which is part of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) proposed in...
Management of apathy is a very important issue in long-term care because many residents suffer from this syndrome. Apathy is present in many residents with neurodegenerative disorders. In Alzheimer disease, apathy is the most common behavioral...
Management of apathy is a very important issue in long-term care because many residents suffer from this syndrome. Apathy is present in many residents with neurodegenerative disorders. In Alzheimer disease, apathy is the most common behavioral...
To assess the effect of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) deprescribing guideline on PPI usage and PPI drug costs in one long-term care home in Ontario, Canada.
In their article on the concordance of sarcopenia and frailty definitions, Reijnierse et al1 report that sarcopenia and frailty are 2 separate conditions. Here, we report the results of our ONCOSARCO (ONCOlogy and SARCOpenia) project.
