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Direct Contracting Risk-Sharing Options: Submit Letter of Intent by December 10

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
Direct contracting creates a variety of pathways for health care providers and suppliers to take on financial risk supported by enhanced flexibilities. Because the model reduces burden, supports a focus on complex, chronically and seriously ill...

Quality Payment Program: MIPS Exception Applications due December 31

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
If you are interested in applying for a Promoting Interoperability Hardship Exception or Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception for the 2019 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), you must submit your...

Quality Payment Program: 2019 APM Incentive Payment Details

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program website has been recently updated to include 2019 Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive payment details. See the CMS fact sheet for more information.

Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program 2020 Webinar by CMS On January 16

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a webinar on the 2020 Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program on Thursday, January 16 from 1 to 2 PM ET. During this webinar, CMS reviews major changes to the Medicare Promoting...

Reducing Hospital Readmissions Through a Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Intervention: A Pragmatic Trial

JAMDA
December 5, 2019
To determine if implementation of Project Re-Engineered Discharge (RED), designed for hospitals but adapted for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), reduces hospital readmissions after SNF discharge to the community in residents admitted to the SNF...

Directions & Connections

JAMDA
December 1, 2019

General Information

JAMDA
December 1, 2019

Table of Contents

JAMDA
December 1, 2019

Editorial Board

JAMDA
December 1, 2019

Is Physical Frailty a Neuromuscular Condition?

JAMDA
December 1, 2019
Various mechanisms have been suggested for the age-associated concomitant decline of brain volume and musculoskeletal mass, strength, and function,1 most of which indicate that a decline in one tissue leads to decreased mutual feedback (chemical or...