The leading U.S. medical and health organizations last week called on the American people to stay home to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and limit its long-term health effect on our country. The open letter from the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is supporting clinicians on the front lines by getting red tape out of the way so the health care delivery system can focus on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response. CMS is implementing...
CMS has issued an electronic tool kit regarding telehealth and telemedicine for long-term care nursing home facilities. This document contains electronic links to reliable sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine, including the...
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. Visit the MDS webpage for more information.
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...
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...
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...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic Congress and the administration took action to expand the use of telehealth to help mitigate the spread of the virus. In a press release on March 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) led with...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to issue guidance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency: Issued guidance for hospice and nursing homes to protect staff and vulnerable patients . There is also separate hospice...
Last week, Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), members of the Senate Finance Committee, and Reps. Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Ann Kuster (D-NH) introduced companion versions of the Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of...
