Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) for another 90 days. The PHE will now remain in place until at least April 11, 2023. HHS continues to note that they will provide...
To investigate whether older people living with multimorbidity would suffer an accelerated decline in cognition during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with prepandemic data.
To examine the distribution of admission and discharge functional abilities among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with a skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay. Further, to assess the validity of the standardized discharge self-care and mobility...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updated national Medicare physician payment files that incorporate the changes from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. Specifically, in response to concerted advocacy by...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted new 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) resources to the QPP Resource Library . 2023 MIPS Quality Measure Specifications The following documents, which provide...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new telehealth indicator on clinician profile pages on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) . The new indicator helps beneficiaries and caregivers more easily...
Congress has again acted to provide a longer extension and has officially untied the flexibilities from the existence of the Public Health Emergency (PHE). The omnibus spending bill passed before the end of the year continues the Medicare telehealth...
For the 2022 performance year, CMS continues to use our Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) application to allow clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternate Payment Model (APM) Entities to...
Increasing rates of Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) has resulted in greater reliance on adult day health centers (ADHCs) and their skilled workforce. Little is known about staffing in ADHCs that provide ADRD services compared with...
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