A new bill aimed at addressing ongoing concerns over Medicare physician payment cuts was introduced in the Senate on May 7. The Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025 (S. 1640), sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, MD (R-KS), seeks to temporarily reverse a 2.83% cut to Medicare physici...
The 2025 Quality Payment Program (QPP) exception applications are available now through December 31, 2025, at 8 PM ET. These two types of exception applications allow users to indicate why they cannot report data for one or more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance categories.
The Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) has signed onto a joint letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joining a coalition of health and technology organizations in urging protection of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Po...
The William Dodd Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service, one of four Excellence Awards given out by the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, recognizes significant contributions to building PALTmed’s organizational strength, image, and mission. Based on that description, it makes perfe...