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CMS Seeks Comments on Patients over Paperwork Initiative

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Patient Centered, Practitioners
June 14, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created the Patients over Paperwork initiative to eliminate outdated, duplicative, and overly burdensome regulations so clinicians and providers can focus on their primary mission: patient care...

Diverse Representation, Animated Debate, Key Action Mark 2019 HoD

Spotlight
June 11, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The Society’s House of Delegates (HoD) tackled a full agenda at its meeting during the organization’s annual conference in Atlanta, GA, and the group did so with energy, passion, lively discussion, and diverse...

Preoperative Sleep Questionnaires Identify Medical Emergency Team Activation in Older Adults

JAMDA
June 11, 2019
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have increased postoperative complications that are important for patient safety and healthcare utilization. Questionnaires help identify patients at risk for OSA; however, among older adults who...

Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome and Risk for Falls, Their Recurrence, and Postfall Fractures: Results From a Prospective Observational Population-Based Cohort Study

JAMDA
June 11, 2019
Motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) is a predementia stage associated with increased risk for falls. There are conflicting results regarding its association with recurrent falls and no information about its association with postfall fractures. The...

June 9, 2019

Weekly Roundup
June 10, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join On the May 28 AMDA On-The-Go podcast about the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), host Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, had several questions: “What is this new thing called PDPM? How is it generated? Why do we need...

Senators Release List of Poorly Performing Nursing Homes After Inquiry

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
June 7, 2019
Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responded to an inquiry from Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) regarding underperforming nursing homes. CMS sent them a list of nursing homes with a recorded pattern of poor...

Society Urges Congress to Further Improve MACRA

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
June 7, 2019
In a letter sent this week to congressional leaders, the Society joined the American Medical Association and other national medical societies in urging Congress to make further refinements to improve the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act...

The Society Submits Comments on HIT Proposed Rule

Policy Snapshot
Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT)
June 7, 2019
This week the Society submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule on the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Issuers of Qualified Health Plans in the Federally-Facilitated Exchanges and Health Care...

CMS Announces New RFI on Patients over Paperwork

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Payment, Practitioners
June 7, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking new ideas from the public on how to continue the progress of the Patients over Paperwork initiative. As of January 2019, CMS estimates that through...

Nursing Home–Associated Pneumonia, Part I: Diagnosis

JAMDA
June 6, 2019
Pneumonia is 1 of the 3 most common infections identified in nursing home residents and is associated with the highest mortality of any infection in this setting. In regard to pneumonia in the nursing home setting, practitioners are focused...