Accountable Care Organizations: Visit the Application Types & Timeline webpage to learn about participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program that starts January 1. Key dates: June 1-7: Submit Notice of Intent to Apply (NOIA) —You must...
The data submission period for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians who participated in the 2021 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) is open. Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 PM ET on March 31...
CMS continues to offer flexibilities to provide relief to clinicians responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). CMS applied the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC)...
Although outcomes for older adults undergoing elective surgery are generally comparable to younger patients, outcomes associated with emergency surgery are poor. These adverse outcomes are in part because of the physiologic changes associated with...
Risk of mortality and major comorbidity remains high following hepatic resection. Given recent advancements in nonsurgical techniques to control hepatic malignancy, accurate assessment of surgical candidates, especially those considered frail, has...
The aim was to investigate the association of cognitive trajectories and overnight surgical hospitalization in older adults, while controlling for and comparing to the association with acute medical hospitalizations.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join From the moment COVID-19 came into post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities, Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, stepped into action. She rallied her teams, worked shoulder to shoulder with her AMDA colleagues and...
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 mandates using standardized patient functional data across post-acute settings. This study characterized similarities and differences in clinician-observed scores of self-care and...
Estimate mortality, cost, and health care resource utilization for Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years who suffered a primary Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) episode only or any recurrent CDI, and understand how outcomes covary with death.
Describe the epidemiology of a large cohort of older adults with isolated traumatic brain injury (TBI) and identify predictors of mortality, palliative interventions, and discharge to preinjury residence in those presenting with moderate/severe TBI.
