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CMS Misses December 31, 2019, Deadline for APM Incentive Payments

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Practice Management, Practitioners
January 9, 2020
CMS Misses December 31, 2019, Deadline for APM Incentive Payments The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an advisory notice on December 26, 2019, indicating the agency would fail to meet the self-imposed deadline of December...

CMS Releases Final 2018 QPP Performance Results: Max Positive 2020 Payment Adjustment is 1.68%

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
January 9, 2020
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance results for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which impacts 2020 payments. The findings are summarized...

New Podcast Puts Nutrition in Older Adults on the Menu

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January 9, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Nutrition in older adults isn’t always a pretty picture, but there is much practitioners can do to add color, pleasure, and positive outcomes to the pallet. In a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast, guest John Morley, MD...

January 5, 2020

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January 5, 2020
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Solving the Many Puzzles of Managing Hypertension in PALTC

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January 2, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Treating hypertension in older adults is complicated for many reasons, one of which is that research on the topic usually doesn’t include nursing home and other post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents...

The MIPS 2019 Data Submission Period is Now Open

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
January 2, 2020
MIPS Eligible Clinicians Can Start Submitting Data for 2019 through March 31 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened the data submission period for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who...

Check Your Initial 2020 MIPS Eligibility on the QPP Website

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
January 2, 2020
You can now use the updated Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program Participation Status Lookup Tool to check on your initial 2020 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Just enter your...

Requiem for a Doctor

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2020
Some of you may still remember me. Or your children or grandchildren might. Perhaps I cared for you at some point over the decades since 1976 when I opened my internal medicine practice, just two weeks after having completed my residency training.

End-Stage Congestive Heart Failure in the Nursing Home Setting

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2020
Mrs. D is an 89-year-old African American woman who has moved into the nursing home directly from her home. Her husband became ill and could no longer care for her. She has a history of heart failure and was seeing her cardiologist for weekly...

What “Patient-Centered Care” Means to Family Caregivers

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2020
The buzz-phrase of the year is “patient-centered care,” coupled with a renewed focus on the “patient experience.” With great enthusiasm, I have joined the movement as a member of the Beryl Institute’s Global Patient and Family Advisory Board. But...