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2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule Released

Policy Snapshot
April 7, 2023
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (...

2023 MIPS Value Pathway (MVP) Registration Now Open

Policy Snapshot
April 7, 2023
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Value Pathways (MVPs) registration window is open for the 2023 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register...

2023 CAHPS for MIPS Survey Registration is Now Open

Policy Snapshot
April 7, 2023
Registration is open through June 30, 2023, at 8:00 PM ET for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Survey for the 2023 performance year. Groups, virtual groups,...

Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports

Policy Snapshot
April 7, 2023
Fourth quarter FY 2022 Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPERs) are available for: Long-term care hospitals Critical access hospitals Inpatient rehabilitation facilities Inpatient psychiatric facilities Hospices Skilled...

Systematic Review of Psychotropic Adverse Drug Event Monitoring Tools for Use in Long-Term Care Facilities

JAMDA
April 7, 2023
To evaluate properties of psychotropic adverse drug event (ADE) monitoring tools intended for use in long-term care facilities.

Factors Associated With the Quality of Life of Nursing Home Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

JAMDA
April 6, 2023
Quality of life (QoL) of nursing home (NH) residents is critical, yet understudied, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to examine whether COVID-19 outbreaks, lack of access to geriatric professionals, and care aide burnout...

Clinician of the Year Is the Leader and Colleague Everyone Wants

Spotlight
April 5, 2023
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Vikas Reddy, MD, is a true team leader and epitomizes the type of practitioner the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine envisioned when they established the Clinician of the Year Award. Dr. Reddy,...

Post-Acute Care in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
Compare post-acute care (PAC) utilization and outcomes in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) between beneficiaries covered by Traditional Medicare (TM) and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to the previous...

Reliability and Validity of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Discharge Mobility and Self-Care Quality Measures

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
To describe the reliability and validity of the publicly reported facility-level quality measures Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Discharge Mobility Score for Medical Rehabilitation Patients (“Discharge mobility score”) and IRF Discharge...

Measuring Nursing Home Quality of Life: Validated Measures Are Poorly Correlated With Proxies From MDS and Quality of Life Deficiency Citationsl

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
Ensuring quality of life (QoL) is an important goal of person-centered nursing home care. The provision of person-centered care relies on information captured in the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). It is unclear to what extent MDS items or QoL-related...