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CMD: Three Letters That Spell Strong, Effective Leader

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Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
February 15, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join One common trait that great team leaders share is that they never stop learning or pursuing new skills. Timothy Paden, MD, CMD, had been a strong, passionate physician for many years; but instead of resting on his...

President’s FY2019 Budget Proposal Released

Policy Snapshot
Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
February 15, 2018
This week the White House released the President’s FY2019 Budget Proposal entitled, Efficient, Effective, Accountable: An American Budget . The President’s budget does not have the force of law but rather it helps set the Administration’s agenda and...

Quality Payment Program: Performance Scores for 2017 Claims Data

Policy Snapshot
Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
February 15, 2018
If you are an eligible clinician who submitted 2017 Quality performance data for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) via claims, view your performance scores through the data submission feature . Simply login and view your calculated...

Cognitive Screening at the Population Level: The Italian Health Examination Survey, 2008-2012

JAMDA
February 10, 2018
In 2011, 35.6 million people worldwide were living with dementia.1 This number will more than triple by 2050.1 Among noncommunicable diseases, dementia accounts for 11.9% of years lived with disability,2 and the annual global cost of either formal...

Frailty Predicts Incident Urinary Incontinence Among Hospitalized Older Adults—A 1-Year Prospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
February 10, 2018
The relationship between frailty and urinary incontinence (UI) remains highly complex. There is limited data on the impact of frailty on new-onset UI among hospitalized older adults. Thus, we examined the ability of frailty to predict incident UI...

Cognitive Screening at the Population Level: The Italian Health Examination Survey, 2008-2012

JAMDA
February 10, 2018
In 2011, 35.6 million people worldwide were living with dementia.1 This number will more than triple by 2050.1 Among noncommunicable diseases, dementia accounts for 11.9% of years lived with disability,2 and the annual global cost of either formal...

Frailty Predicts Incident Urinary Incontinence Among Hospitalized Older Adults—A 1-Year Prospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
February 10, 2018
The relationship between frailty and urinary incontinence (UI) remains highly complex. There is limited data on the impact of frailty on new-onset UI among hospitalized older adults. Thus, we examined the ability of frailty to predict incident UI...

Interpreting Regs: A Welcome Challenge for Physician with Passion for Advocacy

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Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, F-Tags, Medical Director
February 9, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Being a strong patient advocate is a passion that Victoria Walker, MD, CMD, has long held as a cornerstone of her career. It led her to become a policy expert, and now she is sharing her expertise and knowledge...

CMS Publishes Advanced APMs for 2018 MACRA Reporting

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS)
February 9, 2018
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a table displaying the Alternative Payment Models (APMs) that CMS operates. In the table CMS identifies which of those APMs CMS has determined to be MIPS APMs or Advanced...

MIPS: Call for Advancing Care Information Measures and Improvement Activities

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
February 9, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is once again seeking input for additional Advancing Care Information (ACI) measures and improvement activities (IAs) for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment...