This week, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on Medicare Physician Payment Reform After Two Years: Examining MACRA Implementation and the Road Ahead. The hearing examined how well the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of...
Pre-publication review and dispute for Program Year 2018 Open Payments data closes May 15. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will publish Program Year 2018 data and updates to the previous program years in June. Physician and...
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports are available. Review your performance data by May 30, prior to public display on Nursing Home Compare in July 2019. Corrections to the underlying data are not permitted during this time;...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added secure access to the Quality Payment Program Eligibility & Reporting page for the following Alternative Payment Models (APMs): Shared Savings Program, Next Generation Accountable Care...
Aspiration pneumonia is a leading cause of death among older patients; however, little is known about the long-term mortality in aspiration pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term mortality and its associated factors in...
This article aims to conceptualize experienced quality of post-acute and long-term care for older people as perceived by care recipients. An iterative literature review and consultations with stakeholders led to the development of the INDividually...
Increased age is associated with increased emergency department attendance and emergency hospital admissions,1 but there is evidence that the acute hospital environment is unsuited to older people with frailty.2–5 There are policy imperatives to...
Post-acute care (PAC) has been one of the fastest-growing segments of Medicare spending in the past 2 decades.1 More than 40% of all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who were discharged from hospitals received PAC.2 Skilled nursing facility (...
Literature regarding dietary protein intake and risk of falls is limited to a few studies with relatively small sample sizes and short follow-ups, which have reported contrasting findings. Thus, we investigated whether dietary protein intake is...
Underpinning standards for delivering comprehensive care in hospital is the need to identify issues contributing to patient complexity and risk of harm. The study aimed to investigate the prevalence of functional and psychosocial problems in...
