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As the World Changes, Make Sure Your Medical Director Agreement Keeps Up

Spotlight
January 21, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Medical director agreements are critical to establishing obligations and boundaries between the provider and the physician leader. Yet too often the two go into the arrangement with different expectations...

Elizabeth Richter to Serve as Acting CMS Administrator – HHS Nominees Subject to Confirmation

Policy Snapshot
January 21, 2021
Elizabeth Richter, a long-time career civil servant who most recently served as the deputy director for tCMS, will take over as the acting CMS administrator. Ms. Richter will take over for Seema Verma, who submitted her resignation effective January...

2020 MIPS Extreme & Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception Application: Deadline February 1

Policy Snapshot
January 21, 2021
To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS extended the 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception application deadline to February 1. For the 2020...

SNF 3-Day Rule: CMS Guidance on Billing Correctly

Policy Snapshot
January 21, 2021
An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that Medicare improperly paid for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) services when patients didn’t meet the Medicare 3-Day inpatient hospital stay requirement. Review the Skilled Nursing Facility 3-Day...

Clinical Implications of Research on Frailty

JAMDA
January 21, 2021
Heading into the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), health practitioners must respond to the quest to help older people maintain functional ability1 as they age. Functional ability is defined as the capability to be and do what...

Exercise Effects on Brain and Muscle Function in Acutely Hospitalized Older Patients Assessed by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

JAMDA
January 21, 2021
Acute medical illness and subsequent hospitalization are associated with several negative health consequences in older adults, even when the acute disease that caused the hospital admission is successfully treated.1,2 Loss of function in activities...

Letter to the Editor: Premorbid Frailty is a Better Prognostic Indicator Than Age in Oldest-Old Hospitalized With COVID-19

JAMDA
January 18, 2021
Older people have a higher susceptibility for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms and mortality.1 Current studies examining the relation between outcome and frailty in COVID-19 show...

Mobility and Self-Care are Associated With Discharge to Community After Home Health for People With Dementia

JAMDA
January 18, 2021
A priority health outcome for patients, families, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a patient's ability to return home and remain in the community without adverse events following discharge from post-acute care services...

Medical Costs and Readmissions After Intensive Poststroke Rehabilitation: Japanese Claims Data

JAMDA
January 18, 2021
This study examined the association between intensive rehabilitation for subacute stroke patients and medical costs and readmission ratio during the year after discharge.

January 17, 2021

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January 17, 2021
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