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CMS Updates Quality Strategy

Policy Snapshot
Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Quality
December 4, 2015
On November 25, CMS shared the updated 2016 CMS Quality Strategy , which incorporates progress made in shifting Medicare payments from volume to value, including payment reform initiatives, as well as new requirements from the Improving Medicare...

CMS Releases Focused Dementia Care Survey Tools

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia
December 4, 2015
In response to feedback from stakeholders and partners of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes, CMS is sharing the revised survey materials that were developed for the 2014 Focused Dementia Care Survey Pilot and 2015...

PQRS Changes in 2016 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
December 4, 2015
On October 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule that updates the payment policies and payment rates for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) on or after January 1, 2016. The...

Quality of Life in Older Adults Receiving Long-Term Services and Supports: Is It What We Think It Is?

JAMDA
December 1, 2015
Health care is filled with biases and assumptions. Family members, health care providers, even seniors themselves, carry beliefs about aging that affect choices of care, from pain control and end-of-life care decisions to settings and types of...

Slow Stream Rehabilitation: A New Model of Post-Acute Care

JAMDA
December 1, 2015
To identify characteristics and outcomes of elderly patients admitted to a slow stream, low-intensity, and long-duration inpatient rehabilitation (SSR) program after an acute hospitalization because they were unable to tolerate traditional inpatient...

Directions & Connections

JAMDA
December 1, 2015

General Information

JAMDA
December 1, 2015

Table of Contents

JAMDA
December 1, 2015

Editorial Board

JAMDA
December 1, 2015

Treatment of Muscle Wasting: An Overview of Promising Treatment Targets

JAMDA
December 1, 2015
A vast variety of chronic diseases is associated with changes in body composition. Reduced lean mass, that is, skeletal muscle mass, is particularly important with regard to the patients' quality of life, because it may yield reductions in exercise...