The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) thanks nursing homes whose staff members have completed the agency’s free training but urges remaining homes to take advantage of this resource. Last week, CMS publicly recognized the 1,092...
In early September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Care Compare on Medicare.gov, which streamlines its eight original health care compare tools. These original compare tools will retire on December 1, ending this...
On November 16, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an estimated $15 billion decline in improper Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) payments since 2016. The Medicare FFS estimated improper payment rate decreased to 6.27...
In response to the hardships experienced by clinicians due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is allowing Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians to apply for an exemption for one...
There is a lack of studies disentangling whether changes in frailty are associated with subsequent changes in depressive symptoms or vice versa among the oldest old. Consequently, we aimed to disentangle this link.
The transition from home to a nursing home can be stressful and traumatic for both older persons and informal caregivers and is often associated with negative outcomes. Additionally, transitional care interventions often lack a comprehensive...
Assess the impact of a new pharmaceutical care model on (1) polypharmacy and (2) potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in long-term care facilities (LTCFs).
This study presents the design of an integrated, proactive palliative care pathway covering the full care cycle and evaluates its effects using 3 types of outcomes: (1) physician-reported outcomes, (2) outcomes reported by family, and (3) (...
Describe the care preference changes among nursing home residents receiving proactive Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations from health care practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
