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Observation Bed & ER Observation Status and Medicare Three-day Inpatient Hospital Stay Requirement

Resolution and Position Statements
Skilled Nursing Care, Medicaid, Transitions of Care
Policy D08 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that both AMDA and AMA, as stated in policy since 1993 (AMDA HOD Resolutions L93 and C94), oppose the Medicare 3-day acute care hospitalization eligibility requirement for SNF admission. AND BE IT...

AMDA Applauds Congress on Passing of SGR Repeal

April 15, 2015
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicaid, Medicare, Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Practice Management, Meaningful Use, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality, Measures, Transitions of Care
Columbia, MD – The bill known as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 , which includes the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR), was passed by the Senate late Tuesday night, after being passed by the House of...

AMDA President Invited Participant at White House Conference on Aging

July 10, 2015
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicaid, Medicare, Medication, Antipsychotics
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) President Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, FACP, has been invited to participate in the White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA), Monday, July 13, 2015. The 2015 WHCOA is...

Rising Obesity Rates Put Strain on Nursing Homes

December 14, 2015
AMDA in the News
New York Times
Medicaid, Diabetes, Resident
AMDA Past President Cheryl Phillips, MD, comments on the ability of nursing homes to deal with the rising population of obese residents.