The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a frequently asked questions document about bill advance care planning (ACP) services under Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes 99497 and 99498 billable under Medicare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will issue a national provider Comparative Billing Report (CBR) on Subsequent Nursing Facility Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services in April 2016. The CBR, produced by CMS contractor...
On March 9, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new dataset, the Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Payment Public Use File (SNF PUF). This data set, which is part of CMS’s Medicare Provider Utilization and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2016 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guide (IG) for Eligible Professional Programs (EP) and Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Appendix (Version 1.0...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce the first session of a three-part Virtual Office Hours series regarding 2016 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) quality measures. The series includes three separate...
For David LeVine, MD, CMD, Medical Director of Menorah Manor in St. Petersburg, FL, receiving AMDA’s 2016 Medical Director of the Year (MDOY) Award was a family affair. He accepted the honor at a general session during the AMDA – The Society for...
Diabetes mellitus is common in the nursing home (NH) population, yet little is known about prescribing of glucose-lowering medications in the NH setting. We describe trends in initiation of glucose-lowering medications in a national cohort of NH...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition in which an individual has minor problems with cognition that are worse than would normally be expected for a healthy person of the same age, but not severe enough to interfere with daily life. MCI has...
Determining if a transfer of a skilled nursing facility (SNF) patient/resident to an acute hospital is potentially avoidable or preventable is challenging. Most previous research on potentially avoidable or preventable hospitalizations is based on...
As the size of the old-elderly population increases, the prevalence of dementia is rapidly increasing in Japan. The prevalence of dementia is assumed to be approximately 15% and that of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is approximately 17% in...
