On a recent call with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), one of the CMS officials asked the leadership of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine a very broad question: What pains post-acute and long-term...
CareMore Health, a network of integrated medical clinics that serves 150,000 patients across the United States, has long faced the usual challenges of getting patients to appointments. The neediest patients, such as elders and those with chronic...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The Executive Committee reviewed the results of the general membership survey regarding resolution E18, which called for expanding Society general (voting) membership to doctorally prepared non-physicians. After...
.main td{ font-size:12px; } On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that includes proposals to update payment policies, payment rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the...
On July 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for FY 2020 Medicare payment rates and quality programs for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). CMS projects aggregate payments to SNFs will increase by $851...
Reimbursement in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is driven by the number of minutes a patient receives rehabilitation. Physical therapists' (PTs) clinical decisions in evaluation and appropriate treatment of patients drive the dosing of...
In the Netherlands, the use of continuous deep sedation at the end of life has sharply increased from 8.2% of all deaths in 2005 to 12.3% in 2010 to 18.3 % in 2015. We describe its clinical characteristics in 2015 and compare it with 2010 and 2005.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Anyone who has met Charles Crecelius, MD, PhD, CMD, or had the opportunity to see him speak very likely has laughed as well as learned. That unique ability to simultaneously educate, enlighten, and entertain is...
Last week representatives from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified publicly to the Senate Special Committee on Aging about their Improved Oversight Needed to Better Protect Residents from Abuse report. The report noted that “while...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage...
