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CMS Finalizes the New Medicare Quality Payment Program

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management
October 21, 2016
On October 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its policy implementing the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and the Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive payment provisions in the Medicare...

CMS Announces New Initiative to Increase Clinician Engagement

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA)
October 21, 2016
On October 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new initiative to improve the clinician experience with the Medicare program. As delivery system reforms from the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare Access and CHIP...

Medicare’s Investment in Primary Care Shows Progress

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
October 21, 2016
On October 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative’s second round of shared savings results, with nearly all practices (95 percent) meeting quality of care requirements and...

Long-Term Care Facilities: Reform of Requirements Call — October 27

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, F-Tags
October 21, 2016
Thursday, October 27 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects® Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. During this call, learn about the final rule to reform the requirements for long-term care...

Older People, a Plethora of Drugs, and Drug List Approaches: Useful, Efficacious, or a Waste of Time?

JAMDA
October 15, 2016
Multimorbidity and polypharmacy may cause major problems in older people. Patients older than 65 years of age may take five or more drugs in 44% (male) and 57% (female) of cases and 10 or more drugs in 12% of cases.1 Critical amendment of...

CMS to Host Long-Term Care Facilities: Reform of Requirements Call on October 27

Policy Snapshot
Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Federal Regulations, F-Tags
October 14, 2016
Thursday, October 27 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. During this call, learn about the final rule to reform the requirements for long-term care...

Recent GAO Study Finds CMS Should Improve Accessibility and Reliability of Expenditure Data

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
October 14, 2016
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released their report on skilled nursing facilities (SNF) where they were asked to provide information on how SNFs spend their Medicare and other revenues. GAO examined the extent to...

New Data to Increase Transparency on Medicare Hospice Payments

Policy Snapshot
Hospice, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
October 14, 2016
On October 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a privacy-protected public data set, the Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Hospice PUF), which provides information on services provided to Medicare...

Be Part of History: Groundbreaking Survey Seeks to Define Specialty, More

Spotlight
Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
October 14, 2016
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help analyze and define post-acute and long-term care medicine as a specialty field. It is a chance to contribute to an analysis that will create a widespread understanding about what we do every day,”...

Cognitive Decline, Blood Pressure Control and Variability: A Relentless Downward Spiral?

JAMDA
October 14, 2016
In their cross-sectional association study of 1988 outpatients older than 65 years of age, Piotrowicz et al very convincingly document that subclinical worsening of cognition and mood leads to poorer blood pressure control.1 As a consequence, they...