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CMS Reweighting 2020 MIPS Cost Performance Category

Policy Snapshot
May 21, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognizes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency (PHE) on clinicians across the country and continues to offer flexibilities to provide relief where possible. Under § 414...

New Study Highlights Physician Experiences with MIPS New Study Highlights Physician Experiences with MIPS

Policy Snapshot
May 21, 2021
Two articles were recently published highlighting a study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine that was sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Physicians Foundation. Researchers conducted 30 in-depth, semi-structured interviews...

Cognitive Impairment: Medicare Provides Opportunities to Detect and Diagnose

Policy Snapshot
May 21, 2021
Do you have a patient with a cognitive impairment? Medicare covers a separate visit for a cognitive assessment so you can more thoroughly evaluate cognitive function and help with care planning. Three Things You Need to Know: If your patient shows...

New Report on U.S. Health Care Spending

Policy Snapshot
May 21, 2021
A new report from the American Medical Association (AMA) provides a detailed look at the official U.S. health care spending estimates through 2019 using data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It also presents preliminary...

Community Discharge Among Post-Acute Nursing Home Residents: An Association With Patient Safety Culture?

JAMDA
May 21, 2021
We examined whether better patient safety culture (PSC) in skilled nursing facilities was associated with higher likelihood of successful community discharge for post-acute care residents.

POLST Is More Than a Code Status Order Form: Suggestions for Appropriate POLST Use in Long-Term Care

JAMDA
May 21, 2021
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is a medical order form used to document preferences about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), medical interventions such as hospitalization, care in the intensive care unit, and/or ventilation...

Intranasal Oxytocin Improves Lean Muscle Mass and Lowers LDL Cholesterol in Older Adults with Sarcopenic Obesity: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
May 21, 2021
Obesity is associated with sarcopenia in older adults, and weight loss can lead to further muscle mass loss. Oxytocin decreases with age, and animal studies suggest that oxytocin administration has trophic effects on skeletal muscle cells and...

Both Opportunities and Challenges in the Post-Pandemic World

Spotlight
May 20, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join While everyone is eager to move beyond the pandemic, it is essential to examine what we’ve been through, where there were triumphs and failures, and what changes will be necessary and beneficial moving forward...

Laxative Agents in Nursing Homes: An Example of Prescribing Cascade

JAMDA
May 20, 2021
Laxatives are among the most prescribed medications to nursing home (NH) patients, and we evaluated the hypothesis that laxative agents could be prescribed as a result of a prescribing cascade. The aims of the study are (1) to investigate the use of...

Greater Quadriceps Muscle Mass at Post-Acute Care Admission is Associated with Better Swallowing Ability at Discharge among Adults with Stroke

JAMDA
May 20, 2021
This study aimed to examine the relationship between muscle mass and intramuscular adipose tissue of the quadriceps at post-acute care admission and recovery of swallowing ability in patients with stroke.