In December 2022, Congress enacted provisions of the Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 that extended the availability of an APM Incentive Payment, allowing eligible clinicians who are Qualifying APM...
Stop us if you've heard this before—physician Medicare payments have declined relative to inflation and will continue to do so unless Congress acts to fix flawed and outdated payment rules. Tell your legislators to cosponsor H.R. 2474 to provide...
As part of the president’s initiative to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has further strengthened its enhanced enforcement policy for infection control...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is finalizing a rule to put people with Medicare first and put strong protections in place so that Medicare Advantage (MA) works...
Previous studies have indicated that sarcopenic obesity is a risk factor for disability onset. However, these studies had disparities in terms of criteria for sarcopenia, study design, or study population. No longitudinal study has investigated the...
Excessive daytime sleepiness is an increasingly frequent condition among older adults with comorbidities and living in nursing homes (NHs). This study investigated associations between participants' characteristics and excessive daytime sleepiness (...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join To say that everyone knows Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD—AMDA's new vice president—is only a slight exaggeration. She is a frequent presenter at the Annual Conference and other programs, received the...
Although Korea issued a law and developed benefits of National Health Insurance (NHI) to enable the provision of home-based primary care (HBPC) along with implementation of a pilot project for community care for older adults in August 2019, the...
Fall prevention is important in many hospitals. Current fall-risk-screening tools have limited predictive accuracy specifically for older inpatients. Their administration can be time-consuming. A reliable and easy-to-administer tool is desirable to...
Evaluate if augmenting a transitions of care delivery model with insights from artificial intelligence (AI) that applied clinical and exogenous social determinants of health data would reduce rehospitalization in older adults.
