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CMS Strengthens Nursing Home Oversight and Safety to Ensure Adequate Staffing

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Dementia, Practitioners
December 6, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced actions that will bolster nursing home oversight and improve transparency in order to ensure that facilities are staffed adequately to provide high-quality care. These actions include...

HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), End-of-Life, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
December 6, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a draft strategy designed to help reduce administrative and regulatory burden on clinicians caused by the use of health information technology (health IT) such as electronic health...

Physician Compare Preview Period Open through December 31

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Quality Payment Program (QPP)
December 6, 2018
The Physician Compare preview period is open through December 31 at 8 PM ET. Preview your 2017 Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance information before it appears on the Physician Compare profile pages and in the downloadable database. Access...

QRURs and PQRS Feedback Reports: Access Ends December 31

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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), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 6, 2018
The final performance period for the Value Modifier and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) programs was 2016 and the final payment adjustment year is 2018. Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) and PQRS Feedback Reports will no longer be...

SNF PPS: New Patient Driven Payment Model CMS Call — December 11

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 6, 2018
On October 1, 2019, the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is replacing Resource Utilization Group, Version IV (RUG-IV) for the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS). There will be a call about it on Tuesday, December...

CMS Announces Efforts to Improve Patient Safety, Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

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Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced upcoming efforts to support better care and outcomes for nursing home residents under the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP). This three-year initiative aims to...

HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a draft strategy designed to help reduce administrative and regulatory burden on clinicians caused by the use of health information technology (health IT) such as electronic health...

Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy for MIPS-Eligible Clinicians Affected by Hurricanes Florence and Michael

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) understands that if you’re a clinician living or practicing in an area affected by Hurricane Florence and/or Hurricane Michael, you may experience difficulties collecting and submitting data for...

Electronic Health Record Adoption and Interoperability Among U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities in 2017

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT) recently released data on electronic health record (EHR) adoption among skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) for 2017. Some highlights from...

Society Resolution on Telemedicine Unanimously Passes AMA House of Delegates

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November 16, 2018
The Society brought forward a resolution to expand the use of telemedicine in the nursing facility that passed at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates’ (HoD) Interim Meeting in National Harbor, MD. Specifically, the resolution’s...