“Where are you from?” This was the first question Ms. Sylvia asked me after we settled down in our chairs where she could hear and see me. She had functional hearing aids that had been recently updated, but due to her sensorineural hearing loss the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon issue a Comparative Billing Report (CBR) on Medicare Part B claims for initial nursing facility evaluation and management visits. Use the data-driven report to compare your billing...
Please join the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team on Tuesday, November 1, at 3:00 PM ET for an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how its cross-cutting...
This study examined the association of living alone with changes in depressive symptom status and the moderating effect of non–face-to-face social interactions among older adults during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Advocacy. It’s not a one and done effort. It takes time, hard work, and patience. Jay Slotkin, MD, MPH, CMD, knows this from experience, and he shared his insights in a recent AMDA In-The-States podcast on State...
To describe dispensing patterns of antipsychotic medications to long-term care (LTC) residents and assess factors associated with continuation of an antipsychotic after a fall-related hospitalization.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the archive for Doctors and Clinicians (DAC) in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) on Care Compare. This expansion allows users to access historic Merit-based Incentive Payment System...
Historically provider demographic data have been maintained in the Automated Survey Processing Environment or ASPEN software; however, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be transitioning to use the demographic information...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country’s poorest-performing nursing facilities in an effort to immediately improve the care they deliver. In a series of revisions to the Special...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Does receiving recognition really mean anything to those who go above and beyond in their daily profession and who exemplify leadership as a clinician and/or educator? Recipients of the Foundation for Post-Acute...
