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House Passes Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Policy Snapshot
Hospice, End-of-Life, Palliative Care, Practitioners
November 1, 2019
Last week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 647, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). The bipartisan bill, authored by Reps. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Buddy Carter (R-GA), supports palliative...

Society Joins Other Physician Organizations in Addressing Executive Order on Medicare

Policy Snapshot
Practitioners
November 1, 2019
Last week the Society, along with the American Medical Association and many other national and state medical societies, sent a letter to Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning language in a recent...

Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) Submission Deadline Reminder

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practice Management, Practitioners
November 1, 2019
Staffing data from July 1-September 30 must be submitted no later than 45 days from the end of the quarter. The final submission deadline for this quarter is November. Only data successfully submitted by the deadline is considered timely and used on...

Quality Payment Program: MIPS 2019 Web-Based Training Courses

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 1, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted six Continuing Medical Education (CME) modules on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Access them by logging into the Medicare Learning Network Learning Management System ...

APM Incentive Payment Details Now Available on QPP.CMS.GOV

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 1, 2019
The QPP website has been updated to include 2019 Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Payment details. Clinicians and surrogates can now log in to the QPP website using their HARP credentials to see their APM Incentive Payment details. In...

Links Between Physical Frailty and Regional Gray Matter Volumes in Older Adults: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study

JAMDA
November 1, 2019
The relationship between physical frailty and regional gray matter volume in the brain was investigated among community-dwelling older Japanese people.

Experts Offer Tips for PDPM Success During Webinar

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2019
Participants in AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Q&A webinar on Medicare’s Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) had a chance to ask three experts — Steven Buslovich, MD, MS; Rajeev Kumar, MD, FACP, CMD; and Walter...

Communication, Collaboration, and Care Transitions Between Acute and Long-Term Care: A Canadian Perspective

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2019
I recently read a quote that resonated with me: “Here are the real silos: structural pushes and pulls by one group working towards its aims will, in effect, conflict with another group” (BMJ 2016;354:5199). The author was speaking of the conflict...

Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2019
There are many how-to books on caring for aging adults, but sometimes a book shows up that allows us to indulge our inner adult child. New York City–based cartoonist/author Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (New York:...

News From the Society

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2019
The Windy City is calling! Registration for AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s 2020 Annual Conference, set for April 2–5 in Chicago, opens on December 2. Take advantage of early bird registration by December 19 and save.