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Urge Your Representative to Avert Looming Cuts in Medicare Payments

Policy Snapshot
September 24, 2021
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...

Urge Your Representative to Avert Looming Cuts in Medicare Payments

Policy Snapshot
September 24, 2021
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...

CMS Launches New Medicare.gov Feature to Compare Nursing Homes by Vaccination Rate

September 24, 2021
CMS is making it easier to check COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents with a new feature on Medicare.gov . This announcement makes vaccination data available in a user-friendly format to help people make informed decisions...

CMS Launches New Medicare.gov Feature to Compare Nursing Homes by Vaccination Rate

September 24, 2021
CMS is making it easier to check COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents with a new feature on Medicare.gov . This announcement makes vaccination data available in a user-friendly format to help people make informed decisions...

Making Telehealth Work for Your Practice Today, Tomorrow, and 10 Years from Now

September 21, 2021
Telemedicine is here to stay. Whether you’ve been using it for years or just getting started, the digital playing field has changed during the pandemic and continues to evolve. To get and keep everyone in your practice on board, consider...

Associations Between Active Mobility Index and Disability

JAMDA
September 21, 2021
To develop a questionnaire-based Active Mobility Index (AMI) to assess going-out behavior with physical and social activity among older adults, and to assess the criterion-related and predictive validity of the AMI.

Socioeconomic Status, Physical Functioning and Mortality: Results From a Cohort Study of Older Adults in Hong Kong

JAMDA
September 20, 2021
It is inconsistent in the literature on whether inequalities of health in older age widen or narrow over time. We assessed the associations of socioeconomic status (SES), physical functioning, and mortality in an older age cohort in Hong Kong.

Enhancing Performance of a Spasticity Screening Tool Using the Minimum Data Set

JAMDA
September 20, 2021
Spasticity, a common, treatable movement disorder, is often undiagnosed and untreated in long-term care facilities (LTCFs).1–4 A new screening tool holds promise for addressing the under-recognition of spasticity in LTCFs, demonstrating high...

Younger Individuals Increase Their Use of Nursing Homes Following ACA Medicaid Expansion

JAMDA
September 20, 2021
This study examines the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the utilization of nursing home services by younger individuals and those covered by Medicaid.

Poster Abstracts Welcome: Improve Quality with Your Innovative Idea

Spotlight
September 19, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA is accepting abstracts for poster presentations at PALTC22 in Baltimore, MD, in March. Poster Judging Chair Alan Abrams, MD, CMD, hopes that people will get excited about the first live poster session in three...