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COVID-19: AMDA Offers Real-Time Guidance

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COVID-19
March 20, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA is staying on top of the news and updates on COVID-19 and sharing them promptly with our members. Practitioners and their teams are frontline heroes in efforts to address this pandemic, and we want to ensure...

CMS Delays Minimum Data Set Release

Policy Snapshot
March 20, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is delaying the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 v1.18.1 release—which had been scheduled for October 1, 2020—in response to stakeholder concerns. The MDS item sets are used by nursing home and swing...

Society Advocates for Expansion of SNF Telehealth

Policy Snapshot
March 19, 2020
Last week the Society continued to push for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to lift the once a month restrictions on telehealth visits in nursing facilities. The Society continues to tell CMS that our clinicians are on the...

Quality Payment Program: 2020 Facility-Based Status

Policy Snapshot
March 19, 2020
Facility-based measurement offers clinicians and groups the opportunity to receive scores in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality and Cost performance categories based on the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program score earned by...

SNF Claims Incorrectly Cancelled

March 19, 2020
From January 26 through February 16, 2020, a software issue caused skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims to be incorrectly cancelled with a message that there was no three-day qualifying hospital stay. This issue is corrected. If your claims were...

Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program on Resistance to Fluoroquinolones of Urinary Enterobacteriaceae Isolated From Nursing Home Residents: A Retrospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
March 18, 2020
This study investigated the impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program on fluoroquinolone (FLQ) resistance in urinary Enterobacteriaceae isolated from residents of 3 French nursing homes.

“What Would It Take to Transform Post-Acute Care?” 2019 Conference Proceedings on Re-envisioning Post-Acute Care

JAMDA
March 17, 2020
Significant health care reforms resulting from the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT Act) and Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) have important implications for patient selection, payment, and outcomes. These...

Leadership, Staff Empowerment, and the Retention of Nursing Assistants: Findings From a Survey of U.S. Nursing Homes

JAMDA
March 17, 2020
We examined the relationship between nursing assistant (NA) retention and a measure capturing nursing home leadership and staff empowerment.

March 15, 2020

Weekly Roundup
March 15, 2020
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Long-Term Care Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Practical Guidelines for a Population at Highest Risk

JAMDA
March 13, 2020
COVID-19, the abbreviated name for the coronavirus disease 2019, has quickly drawn the attention of worldwide media, public health officials, health care providers, and a worried public. Since its identification in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019...