AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine held its third National Assisted Living Summit during the Society’s Annual Conference. This summit, in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL), brought...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join While the recent wildfires struck a part of California hundreds of miles away from his home and facility, they reminded Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD, of a time not long ago when a similar disaster threatened his...
This week, the Society joined the American Medical Association and over 150 other medical organizations in opposing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal to simplify evaluation and management (E/M) coding. The CMS proposal...
On August 27, CMS released an evaluation report for the first performance year of the Innovation Center’s Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model showing promising early results. Results demonstrated the positive outcomes in terms...
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017, your MIPS final score and performance feedback are available on the Quality Payment Program website. The payment adjustment you receive in 2019 is based on this final...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted 10 new proposed Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Review Topics to its website for a 30-day comment period. CMS began posting the proposed review topics last year in response to...
An ideal holistic health care model, where an apt, cost-effective and well-timed medicine is available and the patient is fittingly counseled on his or her medications, is still a fantasy to most of the common people in a developing country. Factors...
Across the world, health care for residents in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is provided by a range of different professionals, and there is no consensus on which professional group(s) deliver the best outcomes for residents. The objective of...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join While the recent wildfires struck a part of California hundreds of miles away from his home and facility, they reminded Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD, of a time not long ago when a similar disaster threatened his...
High-risk prescribing can have deleterious effects on the health of older people. This study aimed to assess the role of inappropriate prescribing on changes in frailty status over 3 years of follow-up.
