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June 21, 2020

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June 21, 2020
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The Nuts and Bolts of Utilizing Telemedicine in Nursing Homes – The GeriCare@North Experience

JAMDA
June 20, 2020
We examined the demographics and the clinical profile of teleconsultations conducted between an acute geriatric medicine department and 8 nursing homes over a period of 6.5 years.

Home Health Services in the Time of Coronavirus Disease 2019: Recommendations for Safe Transitions

JAMDA
June 18, 2020
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led health systems to focus on hospital capacity, hospitals are emphasizing early discharges to prepare for and mitigate patient surges. This has resulted in greater numbers of older adults...

Education Is A Lifelong Passion for Pattee Award Recipient

Spotlight
June 18, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Education has been an important part of the 40-year career of Robert Kaplan, MD, FACP, CMD.. Combining that with his commitment to AMDA, he exemplifies what the James Pattee Award for Excellence in Education is all...

Urge Your Representatives to Support the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act

Policy Snapshot
Federal Regulations, Practitioners
June 18, 2020
Reps. Phil Roe, MD (R-TN) and Lou Correa (D-CA) have introduced H.R. 7059, the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act, to grant targeted, limited liability protections to pandemic responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 response. The bill has...

COVID-19 Diagnostic Laboratory Tests: Billing for Clinician Services

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practitioners
June 18, 2020
Physicians and non-physician practitioners (NPPs): Here are several reminders from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to billing for COVID-19 symptom and exposure assessment and specimen collection performed on and after...

30 Senators Send Letter to the Administration Calling for Extension of Telehealth Policies

Policy Snapshot
Practitioners, Telemedicine
June 18, 2020
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) and a bipartisan group of 29 senators sent a letter to the administration on June 15 calling to make permanent telehealth waivers and flexibilities that are currently implemented for the duration of the public health...

MIPS Call for Measures Deadlines

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
June 18, 2020
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Annual Call for Measures and Activities process allows clinicians; professional associations; and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups, and others to identify and...

Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults

JAMDA
June 18, 2020
The First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) screening tool was created to identify fall risk in community-living older adults who may benefit from primary preventive interventions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive performance of the FIF...

Quality of Nursing Homes and Admission of Residents With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: The Potential Influence of Market Factors and State Policies

JAMDA
June 18, 2020
This study aimed to examine the associations between nursing home (NH) quality and prevalence of newly admitted NH residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), and to assess the extent to which market-level wages for certified...