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Improving Medication Profiles For Tranfers From Hospitals To Assure F-Tag Compliance

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, F-Tags, Medication, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
RESOLUTION D07 BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Medical Directors Association request that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services amend the Medicare Conditions of Participation for hospitals to require a medication profile (that...

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 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 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...