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Society Asks for Parity on E&M Coding in Comments to CMS

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
October 3, 2019
For the second year in a row, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed sweeping changes to evaluation and management (E&M) coding. In its annual release of the physician fee schedule (PFS) proposed rule, CMS proposed to...

Proxies Viewing Decision Support Video in Nursing Home Report Higher Advance Care Planning Engagement

JAMDA
October 3, 2019
Approximately one-third of older Americans die in the nursing home (NH).1 Despite the NH being a common setting for end-of-life care, it is often associated with poor family satisfaction with the quality of end-of-life care.2 Advance care planning (...

A Randomized Trial of Alerting to Low Glycated Hemoglobin Level in Older Adults: Results of the Low Indexes of Metabolism Intervention Trial B (LIMIT-B)

JAMDA
October 3, 2019
The benefit of alerting clinical staff to low plasma glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in patients aged 75 years and older who receive antidiabetic drugs remains uncertain.

Leisure Activities and All-Cause Mortality Among the Chinese Oldest-Old Population: A Prospective Community-Based Cohort Study

JAMDA
October 3, 2019
To investigate associations between leisure activities, examining each activity separately and in combination, and all-cause mortality among the Chinese oldest-old (≥80 years) population.

Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD) in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes

JAMDA
October 3, 2019
The Ethics Subcommittee of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (“The Society”) presents arguments for and against Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD). SED by AD is a type of advance directive in...

Directions & Connections

JAMDA
October 1, 2019

General Information

JAMDA
October 1, 2019

Table of Contents

JAMDA
October 1, 2019

Editorial Board

JAMDA
October 1, 2019

Lower Extremity Impairment Parallels Cognitive Impairment as a Cause of Disability: A Call for Public Awareness

JAMDA
October 1, 2019
Cognitive impairment, because of its long-term and devastating toll on individuals, families, and the health care system, has appropriately received much emphasis in practice, policy, advocacy, education, and research circles.1–3 At the same time,...