Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)

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The Nursing Home Medical Director: Leader & Manager

White Paper
Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Introduction In 1974, in response to identified quality of care problems, Medicare regulations first required a physician to serve as medical director in skilled nursing facilities and to be responsible for the medical care provided in...

Appropriate Use of Quality Indicators in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Population

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Policy F-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other stakeholders to address the issue of appropriate use of Quality...

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 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...