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March 31, 2025
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Policy Snapshot
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Submits Statement for House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Hearing on Post-Acute Care
In written comments to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Hearing, After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care, PALTmed President Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, highlighted key challenges in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). These include workforce shortages, o...
Press Release
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Announces 2025-2026 Board of Directors
Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) has elected its 2025-2026 Board of Directors. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, is president; Leslie Beth Eber, MD, CMD, is president-elect; and Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, is vice president.
Spotlight
March 31, 2025
Medical Director of the Year: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future
William Mercer, MD, CMD, the 2025 Medical Director of the Year, vividly remembers how he got involved with post-acute and long-term care and with PALTmed (then known as AMDA). The local hospital, which had a long-term care skilled unit, approached him and asked if he’d like to be the medical director. He w...
Podcast
March 26, 2025
PALTtalk with Dr. Diane Sanders-Cepeda | Staying Survey-Ready: A Medical Director's Guide to Implementing CMS Updates
PALTmed In The News
March 24, 2025
Assisted living industry must be proactive about quality measures
An article in a recent issue of JAMDA, The Journal of the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association by Tetyana P. Shippee, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Minnesota reports on major domains of quality relevant to assisted living.
Policy Snapshot
March 24, 2025
CMS Reminds SNFs to Revalidate by May 1
CMS has issued a reminder for enrolled skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to collect and submit data on ownership, managerial, and related party information by May 1, 2025. This initiative is part of CMS' ongoing efforts to enhance transparency regarding SNF ownership and leadership.
Policy Snapshot
March 24, 2025
2024 MIPS Data Submission Deadline Extended to April 14, 2025
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians and their representatives can submit and update their MIPS data until April 14, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encourages submission of data as early as possible in advance of this extended deadline...
PALTmed In The News
March 18, 2025
SNFs, clinicians sound off on Congress’ inaction on physician fee schedule cuts in spending bill
Skilled nursing providers and clinicians are criticizing Congress’ short-term spending bill signed by President Trump, which notably omitted the reversal of cuts in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. They believe sector instability will be a residual effect.
Policy Snapshot
March 18, 2025
Congressional Spending Bill Fails to Address Physician Fee Cuts but Extends Telehealth Benefit
Last week, Congress passed a government funding bill to avert a shutdown, but it notably lacked provisions addressing the 2.8% Medicare physician payment cut that took effect on January 1, 2025. PALTmed had hoped the bill would include provisions from the bipartisan Medicare Patient Access and Practice Sta...
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