The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that 91 percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participated in the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) – exceeding...
When: Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Registration Link: https://engage.vevent.com/index.jsp?eid=3536&seid=1111 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, June 12, at 1:00 PM ET to provide...
Visit the CMS QPP Website to View Your MIPS Preliminary Performance Feedback Data The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind you that if you submitted 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data through the...
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports are now available; visit the Spotlights and Announcements webpage for a list of quality measures based on quarterly data. Review your performance data by June 30, prior to public display on...
To conduct a systematic review of the literature on prospective cohort studies examining mortality risk according to frailty defined by FRAIL scale, and to perform a meta-analysis to synthesize the pooled risk estimates.
In this issue of JAMDA, Sloane and collaborators share the results of a retrospective study among 236 patients in 31 nursing facilities (NFs) that examines signs and symptoms prior to a hospitalization related to sepsis.1 The authors compared the...
