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Validity of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Scale for Evaluating Frailty Status in Older Adults

JAMDA
September 24, 2018
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) may not be performed in clinical practice as it takes too much time and requires special training. The Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is widely used to assess nutritional status in older adults. We aimed...

Dysphagia in Nursing Home Residents: Management and Outcomes

JAMDA
September 21, 2018
To define the prevalence of dysphagia and its associated factors and to investigate the influence of dysphagia and nutritional therapies performed in dysphagic subjects on clinical outcomes, including nutritional status, pressure ulcers,...

September 21, 2018

Weekly Roundup
September 21, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Christopher Trotz, MD, CMD, brings a unique perspective to his new role as an American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) board member. As a physician executive and practitioner, he devised a...

eCQM Value Sets: Updates for 2019 Reporting and Performance Periods

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
September 20, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) published updates to the electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) value sets to align with recent releases to terminologies, including, ICD-10-CM/PCS...

MIPS Targeted Review Request: Deadline Extended to October 15

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
September 20, 2018
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017, your MIPS final score and performance feedback are available on the Quality Payment Program website. The payment adjustment you receive in 2019 is based on this final...

Value-Based Payment Important to New ABPLM Board Member

Spotlight
September 18, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Christopher Trotz, MD, CMD, brings a unique perspective to his new role as an American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) board member. As a physician executive and practitioner, he devised a...

Exploring Antipsychotic Prescribing Behaviors for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Qualitative Study

JAMDA
September 18, 2018
Caution is advised when prescribing antipsychotics to people with dementia. This study explored the determinants of appropriate, evidence-based antipsychotic prescribing behaviors for nursing home residents with dementia, with a view to informing...

Signs of Dehydration in Nursing Home Residents

JAMDA
September 15, 2018
Although dehydration can affect mental and physical health, there is no clear, consistent, and reproducible diagnostic tool for this condition in older people. We applied multiple methods to detect dehydration with the aim of assessing the value of...

September 14, 2018

Weekly Roundup
September 14, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join As with many Society members, a love of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) medicine runs deep for Andrea Moser, MD, MSc, CMD, a newly appointed American Board for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM)...

Society Comments on 2019 Physician Fee Schedule and QPP Proposed Rule

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
September 13, 2018
This week the Society submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed rule. The Society noted that they were appreciative of CMS’...