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Support Observation Status Legislation

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Observation Status
June 1, 2018
Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), Glenn 'GT' Thompson (R-PA) and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have co-sponsored legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes...

CMS Releases 2016 Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practitioners
June 1, 2018
The Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) contains summarized information on Part B services and procedures furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by physicians and other healthcare professionals. The 2016 dataset includes: Information on...

Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Community-Dwelling Older Patients with Dementia: Prevalence and Relationship with Geriatric Parameters

JAMDA
May 31, 2018
To define the prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in community-dwelling older persons with dementia, using V-VST (Volume-Viscosity Swallow Test), the reference clinical screening test for swallowing disorders, to assess the feasibility of the...

Isn't It Time We Stop Counting the Number of Drugs to Define Polypharmacy in This New Era of Deprescribing and What Related Outcomes Should Be Measured?

JAMDA
May 31, 2018
In this issue appears a paper titled “Association of Polypharmacy With 1-Year Trajectories of Cognitive and Physical Function in Nursing Home Residents: Results From a Multicentre European Study.” The authors defined polypharmacy by medication count...

Association of Polypharmacy With 1-Year Trajectories of Cognitive and Physical Function in Nursing Home Residents: Results From a Multicenter European Study

JAMDA
May 31, 2018
To test the association between polypharmacy and 1-year change in physical and cognitive function among nursing home (NH) residents.

Sex Difference in the Association Between Protein Intake and Frailty: Assessed Using the Kihon Checklist Indexes Among Older Adults

JAMDA
May 31, 2018
Dietary protein intake is inversely associated with physical frailty risk. However, it is unknown whether an association exists between dietary protein intake and comprehensive frailty.

Advocacy Action Alert: Bipartisan Geriatrics Workforce Legislation Introduced in Senate

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Care Settings/Types, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
May 25, 2018
This week, Senators Susan Collins (R—Maine) and co-sponsor Senator Bob Casey (D—Pennsylvania) introduced the bipartisan Geriatrics Workforce Improve Act (S.2888) in the U.S. Senate. This bill echoes similar bipartisan legislation proposed in the U.S...

CMS Releases Annual Quality Measure Development Plan

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality
May 25, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released their 2018 Annual Report: Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) . The 2018 MDP Annual Report describes CMS activities during the previous year to advance the development of...

MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Webinar — June 12

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality, Measures
May 25, 2018
Recently, CMS announced that they changed the name of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Advancing Care Information performance category to the Promoting Interoperability performance category: This is not a new performance category...

Join CMS at a 2018 QCDR Measures Workgroup to Learn More about 2019 QCDR Measure Development, Processes, and Expectations

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality, Measures
May 25, 2018
On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar that will provide an overview of Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) measure development, processes and expectations. This...