CMS has revised guidelines on Reviewing Short Stay Hospital Claims for Patient Status: Admissions On or After January 1, 2016 . Starting October 1, 2015 Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIOs) began...
In this MLN Connects video , Dr. Patrick Conway, the Principle Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer for CMS, provides an overview of the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 . This important legislation...
The 2015 White House Conference on Aging released their final report which summarizes the work of 2015 year as well as the feedback they have received in the course of carrying out the conference. In a year that marked the 50th anniversary of...
Performing root cause analyses (RCA) on transfers of skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients to acute hospitals can help identify opportunities for care process improvements and education that may help prevent unnecessary emergency department (ED)...
Dietary pattern analysis has recently emerged as an alternative approach to investigate the association between diet and sarcopenia. This study examined the association of dietary patterns with sarcopenia in Chinese community-dwelling older people.
On November 3, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), published in the Federal Register (80 Fed. Reg. 68126), proposed revisions to requirements for discharge planning for hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), and Home...
On December 18th, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released for comment the draft CMS Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) . Section 102 of MACRA, requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and post on the...
This tools allows users to search for individual claims and registry-based measure specifications based on search criteria provided. Click on a measure link to see detailed specifications. Please note that electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM)...
Psychomotor slowing is a core feature of depression in late life, but its prognostic value with respect to course and chronicity is unclear. We investigated whether gait speed can predict chronicity of depressive symptoms. Furthermore, we tested...
Dementia is a syndrome associated with stigma and social isolation. Forty-two percent of people with dementia in the United States and almost 40% in the United Kingdom live in assisted living and residential care facilities. Up to 90% of residents...
