The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 was recently introduced in both the House of Representatives (H.R. 4932) and Senate (S.2741). The bill would grant authority for the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the list of Electronic Clinical Quality Measures ( eCQMs ) that are fully specified and available to be used for the 2020 performance period in the Quality Payment Program; they...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When opportunity knocked, Marissa Galicia-Castillo, MD, answered; the result was an innovative program to improve the identification and management of congestive heart failure (CHF) at her facility. “I’ve been an...
Use of a system-wide standardized clinical assessment to facilitate information-sharing is an essential component of an integrated healthcare system.1 The Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (interRAI-HC) is a standardized clinical...
Previous research has shown that ethnicity may play a role in increased risk for hospital readmission during a post-acute rehabilitation care (PARC) stay. However, little is known about risk factors influencing discharge status from PARC settings...
Advance care planning (ACP) is seldom initiated with people with dementia (PWD) and mainly focuses on medical end-of-life decisions. We studied the effects of an educational intervention for general practitioners (GPs) aimed at initiating and...
POLICY UPDATE: Volume VIII Follow AMDA On-The-Hill Podcast Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org Related Resources: Society Asks for Parity on E&M Coding in Comments to CMS CMS Announces Plan to Address Medicare Program Integrity November...
Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated in a wide variety of conditions highly prevalent in the geriatric population, including fractures, functional limitations, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and depression. Vitamin D supplementation is...
Nonagenarian patients are underrepresented in clinical trials that have evaluated oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim of this study was to assess the pronostic impact of oral anticoagulation in patients with AF...
