It’s been a good 6 years since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started wielding the stick called HRRP, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, designed to encourage hospitals to improve discharge planning and reduce unnecessary...
A collaborative quality improvement (QI) project to improve pain management for nursing home residents is changing outcomes through facility-specific interventions, ranging from changes in health records and electronic documentation to more...
As post-acute and long-term care medicine continues its move from traditional fee-for-service to value-based medicine, the business of PALTC has become everyone’s business. Increasingly, providers see specialty care units or programs — from wound...
There is little epidemiologic evidence considering the combined effect of dynapenia and low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] on incident disability. Our aim was to investigate whether the combination of dynapenia and low 25 (OH) D serum levels...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Members who share their time and talents with the Society have a powerful impact on others, even if they don’t realize it. Just ask Eric Hasemeier, DO, MBA, CMD, the Society’s 2018 Medical Director of the Year...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traveling the globe as an ambassador of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) is a source of great pride for Society President Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD. As she plans to speak at and attend the Nursing Home Research...
This week the House of Representatives passed four bills to provide health care workforce training and medical education: H.R. 1676, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, would direct the Department of Health and Human Services...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided notifications to facilities that were determined to be out of compliance with Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) requirements for CY 2017. This will impact...
Here are a few upcoming webinars on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): · MIPS Improvement Activities Performance Category Year 2 Overview Wednesday, August 1, 1-2 pm ET Topics include category requirements, scoring details, and data...
Our study examines factors associated with patient-reported outcomes in functioning among Medicare beneficiaries who reported receiving rehabilitation services in a nursing home or inpatient (ie, hospital or rehabilitation facility) setting in the...
