On July 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (CMS-1645-F) outlining FY 2017 Medicare payment policies and rates for the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS), the SNF Quality...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently opened the application period for practices to participate in the new nation-wide primary care model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). CPC+ is a five-year primary care medical...
The Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) recently released their final White Paper on Clinical Episode Payment (CEP) models. The paper, developed by the Clinical Episode Payment Work Group, provides guidance for the design and...
Two new datasets are available through the Physician Compare Downloadable Database : 2014 Physician Quality Report System (PQRS) clinical quality of care performance rates for six measures collected via claims for over 37,000 individual Eligible...
Malnutrition plays a major role in clinical and functional impairment in older adults. The use of validated, user-friendly and rapid screening tools for malnutrition in the elderly may improve the diagnosis and, possibly, the prognosis. The aim of...
“A lot of people related to the project on a personal level—they have loved ones who they think could benefit from it. Other people wanted to implement something similar in their own facilities," says Daniel Goltz. Goltz, though still in medical...
Spotlight: For this Medical Student, Program Opens Minds and Doors HPA: CMS Announces Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model and Other Changes to Episode Based Payment Models; SNF's:FInal 2017 Payment & Policy Changes; CMS Announces Next...
Late life depression (LLD), defined as depressive illness in people aged 60 years or older, is more complex than depression presenting in earlier life, with different clinical features and a poorer response to therapy. Different biological factors...
FDA released an updated statement including a voluntary recallExternal Web Site Icon of all of liquid products manufactured by PharmaTech and distributed by: Rugby, Major, Bayshore, Metron, Centurion, and Virtus. Read more .
The study aimed to examine the epidemiology of hypertonic contractures and its relationship with minimal trauma fracture (MTF), and to determine the incidence and predictors of (MTF) in long-term care residents.
