The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updated national Medicare physician payment files that incorporate the changes from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. Specifically, in response to concerted advocacy by...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted new 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) resources to the QPP Resource Library . 2023 MIPS Quality Measure Specifications The following documents, which provide...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new telehealth indicator on clinician profile pages on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) . The new indicator helps beneficiaries and caregivers more easily...
Congress has again acted to provide a longer extension and has officially untied the flexibilities from the existence of the Public Health Emergency (PHE). The omnibus spending bill passed before the end of the year continues the Medicare telehealth...
For the 2022 performance year, CMS continues to use our Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) application to allow clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternate Payment Model (APM) Entities to...
Increasing rates of Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) has resulted in greater reliance on adult day health centers (ADHCs) and their skilled workforce. Little is known about staffing in ADHCs that provide ADRD services compared with...
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To assess the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate's effects on nursing homes' nurse aide and licensed nurse staffing levels in states both with and without state-level vaccine mandates.
LESS-CHRON (List of Evidence-Based Deprescribing for Chronic Patients) and STOPPFrail (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions in Frail adults with limited life expectancy) are criterion-based deprescribing tools. This study aimed to identify...
