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Flu Season is Here: Protect Your Patients, Yourself, and Your Loved Ones

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
It’s flu season, and flu shots are the best way to protect your patients, yourself, and your loved ones. The CDC recommends annual flu shots for everyone 6 months and older. Reducing the spread of respiratory illness, like flu, this fall and winter...

Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Updates

October 1, 2021
Get the latest payment information on the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) and find out how and when you can comment: Calendar Year (CY) 2022 preliminary payment determinations: Visit the Payment Determinations section of the CMS CLFS Annual...

Post-Acute Care Transfers: Bill Correctly

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
In a recent report , the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found Medicare improperly paid inpatient claims subject to the transfer policy. Many hospitals didn’t properly code inpatient claims as a discharge to home when patients resumed home health...

CMS Webinar Reviews the APM Performance Pathway

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
On Monday, September 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a webinar discussing an overview of the APM Performance Pathway (APP) policies, which are part of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). According to CMS, this is a...

Society Expresses Concern to FDA on Labeling of Aducanumab

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society joined the American Geriatrics Society, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, in writing a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concern for...

Society Supports Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society, through our membership in the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), supported the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021, championed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD (R) and Angus King (I) and Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD...

Society Supports Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society, through our membership in the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), supported the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021, championed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD (R) and Angus King (I) and Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD...

Associations Between Intrinsic Capacity and Adverse Events Among Nursing Home Residents: The INCUR Study

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
The predictive ability of the novel intrinsic capacity (IC) construct has been scarcely investigated in the nursing home setting. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations of IC and its individual domains with mortality,...

Emergency Department Staff Perceptions of Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY)

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
We refer to our article entitled “Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY): Front-Door Geriatric Care Can Reduce Acute Admissions.”1 Although we have described clinical effectiveness of the EDIFY program, a deeper appreciation of...

Webinar Offers an “Auxiliary Brain” to Help Clinicians Diagnose and Manage Parkinson’s

Spotlight
September 29, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Since one in four people with Parkinson’s Disease lives in long-term care facilities, practitioners working in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) need to know all they can to best manage this complex disease...