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Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes: Trend Update from CMS

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practitioners
March 8, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage...

Practice Management and Leadership Focused Sessions Bring Added Perspective to the Annual Conference

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Payment, Practitioners
March 8, 2018
This year during the Society’s 2018 Annual Conference (March 21-25 in Grapevine, TX) the new Practice Group Network has sponsored sessions to address leadership and management knowledge necessary for running a successful post-acute and long-term...

MyHealthEData Initiative Puts Patients at the Center of the US Health Care System

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
March 8, 2018
On March 6, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced a new initiative – MyHealthEData – to empower patients by giving them control of their health care data and allowing it to follow them through their health care journey. MyHealthEData will help to...

Society Once Again a Collaborator for the HIMMS18 Meeting

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Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
March 1, 2018
For the second year in a row, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care medicine is a collaborator for the HIMMS18 conference in Las Vegas, NV March 5-9. The conference is the major health information technology (HIT) event that bring...

Physician Advisory Panel to Vote on Several Key PALTC Related Alternative Payment Models

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practitioners
March 1, 2018
The Physician Technical Advisory Panel (PTAC) is scheduled to vote on several alternative payment model (APM) proposals impacting the post-acute and long-term care space at its next March 26-27 meeting in Washington DC. These include: Patient and...

MIPS: Apply to Participate in Quality Measures Study by March 23

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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), Practitioners
March 1, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures study, as outlined in the Quality Payment Program Year 2 final rule to: Examine clinical workflows and data collection...

MIPS Claims Based Quality Measures Projections and Results Video from CMS

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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), Practitioners
March 1, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had developed a video that demonstrates a new Quality Payment Program website feature for the Merit-Based Incentive Program (MIPS). This feature allows users from groups who submit Quality...

CMS Holding a Dementia Care: Person-Centered Care Planning and Practice Recommendations Call

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practitioners
February 23, 2018
National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Tuesday, March 20 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, gain insight on the phase two changes for person-...

New CMS Video: MIPS Claims Based Quality Measures Projections and Results

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS)
February 23, 2018
This Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demo, available here , shows users a new qpp.cms.gov feature. This feature will allow a user from a group who submits their Quality Measures for the purposes of Merit-Based Incentive Program (...

eCQM Annual Update Pre-Publication Document Now Available from CMS

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
February 23, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) Annual Update Pre-Publication Document , which describes changes in the standards and code set versions used in the updated measures...