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Providers Applaud CMS Proposal to Cover Advance Care Planning

July 9, 2015
AMDA in the News
McKnight's
Advance Care Planning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
Long-term care organizations are applauding a proposal released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would reimburse healthcare practitioners for discussing advance care planning with patients.

Plan Will Push Care Planning

August 5, 2015
AMDA in the News
McKnight's
Advance Care Planning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to reimburse practitioners for discussing advance care planning drew praise of long-term care medical directors in July.

Physician Visits Under Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners
Physician
Resolution E99 Becomes Policy March 1999 AMDA resolves to encourage HCFA to support the following objectives under the PPS; physician visits should be based on medical necessity; and all physician visits required by federal or state laws...

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.

Never-Events

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Falls, Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Pressure Ulcers
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy B10 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA establish a position paper in regards to stage 3 or 4 pressure ulcers and death associated with falls preventability in the long-term care setting; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that AMDA...

Accountable Care Organizations

Resolution and Position Statements
Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Quality, Measures, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy G11 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA - Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine should work with other stakeholders in LTC to investigate, monitor and/or determine specific recommendations ACOs should follow in the following areas to...

Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) FIX

Resolution and Position Statements
Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)
Physician
Policy B12 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine, working with other stakeholders, support the American Medical Associations’ (AMA) three pronged recommendation, to (1) Repeal the SGR; (2) Implement a...

Exclusion of Medical Providers in Long Term Care from Accountable Care Organizations Primary Care Physician Restriction

Resolution and Position Statements
Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy C13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the appropriate parties to allow medical providers in long term care and Medical Directors of nursing facilities to participate in...

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: Last Minute “Fiscal Cliff” Deal Averts Physician Pay Cut

January 2, 2013
Press Release
Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)
Columbia, MD – “AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine is pleased with the passing of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, allowing for a one-year physician payment freeze, and averting the scheduled 26.5 percent cut previously scheduled...