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End-of-Life Care Planning In Nursing Facilities

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Medical Director
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution I99 Becomes Policy March 1999 AMDA resolves to recognize the significance of end-of-life care planning. And, that all residents in nursing facilities should have access to appropriate end-of-life care. The expected outcomes are...

Representation on Medicare RUC Committee

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, Medicare, Payment
Physician
Resolution B01 Becomes Policy March 2001 AMDA resolves to work to ensure that the Medicare Relative Value Update Committee will include as a permanent member a physician who practices the specialty of long-term care and geriatric medicine.

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Policy D-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state chapters promote the Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm by supporting education about, dissemination and...

Guide to Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation

Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Extensively updated to reflect major E/M coding changes for 2023, The Guide to Post-Acute and Long Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation, is a popular and must-have publication that contains important documentation and medical decision...

AMDA Resources Featured in Eldercare Workforce Alliance’s Older Americans Month Toolkit

May 13, 2014
Press Release
Advance Care Planning, Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) is proud to have several products, programs, and resources featured in the Eldercare Workforce Alliance’s (EWA) Older Americans Month Toolkit . EWA created the kit...

AMDA Applauds Support of ACP Code from CMS

July 8, 2015
Press Release
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Resident
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) applauds the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for their support for Medicare reimbursement of advance care planning (ACP) services. Their support...

3 Tools to Reduce Hospitalizations

December 1, 2015
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Assisted Living, Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
AMDA Board member Kevin O'Neil, MD, CMD, comments on three tools that have shown success in improving the quality of care provided to skilled nursing residents that also work well for residents of assisted living communities.