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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 Model Medical Director Agreement and Supplemental Materials: Medical Director of a Nursing Facility

Practice Management Tools
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), F-Tags, Practice Management, Medical Director
Physician
This package serves as a guide for agreements for medical director services in nursing facilities. It includes a model agreement between the medical director and the nursing facility; performance requirements and the roles and responsibilities of a...

AMDA Nursing Home Measures Endorsed By NQF

October 18, 2012
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practice Management, Minimum Data Set, Quality, Measures
Columbia, MD –Oct. 18, 2012 — In October 2012, the National Quality Forum (NQF) Neurology Steering Committee recommended two nursing home measures submitted by AMDA be considered for endorsement. AMDA developed the two quality measures, titled...

National Quality Forum Board Approves AMDA Quality Measures on Dementia

March 11, 2013
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practice Management, Minimum Data Set, Quality, Measures
Columbia, MD – AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) is proud to announce the Board of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care nationwide, has approved two nursing...

AMDA Press Statement in Response to ProPublica Antipsychotics Prescribing Report

May 21, 2013
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Dementia, Medication, Antipsychotics
Columbia, MD — In response to the ProPublica report, “ Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk ,” AMDA released the following statement: AMDA agrees that ongoing efforts to educate physicians and...

AMDA Supports Repeal and Replacement of SGR

February 11, 2014
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)
AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) supports the “SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014” (H.R. 4015). We are pleased that the bill permanently repeals and replaces the SGR with positive updates that will...

AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine Statement in Response to OIG Report on Adverse Events in SNFs

March 3, 2014
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practice Management, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
The core of AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA’s) mission is to improve and advance the quality of care provided to post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) patients. Much has improved in this setting over the years, and the recent...

AMDA Applauds CMS’s Decision Not to Finalize Rule to Eliminate Protected Drug Class Status

March 13, 2014
Press Release
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Medication, Antipsychotics
Columbia, MD - AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided not to finalize its proposed rule to eliminate protected class status for several...

AMDA’s Efforts Referenced in CMS Report on Successful Reduction of Nursing Home Antipsychotic Use

April 24, 2014
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Medication, Antipsychotics
Columbia, MD – In 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) set a goal of reducing antipsychotic use in long-stay nursing home residents by 15% nationwide. Recently, the agency announced that this goal has been met. AMDA—The...

AMDA Supports New Goals of National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes

September 19, 2014
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Medication, Antipsychotics, Patient Centered
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine supports the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care’s new goals, announced today , to further reduce the use of antipsychotic medications in long-stay nursing home...