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...
Identifying the factors that contribute to the incidence of disability in older adults and the activities that can be engaged in to reduce the risk of disability is critical to the health of older adults. This study aimed to assess the impact of social activities on the incidence of disability during follo...
To examine how health information technology (HIT) supports timely post-acute home health and outpatient care for sepsis survivors by identifying facilitators, barriers, and proposed strategies.
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...
Dementia is associated with increased health care use; however, the timing of hospitalizations in relation to the development of dementia remains unclear. Cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke often co-occur with dementia, but the impact of dementia on hospita...
Home-based primary care (HBPC) is uniquely capable of meeting the health care needs of homebound older adults, many of whom experience diminished access to primary care. Research demonstrations of HBPC have often recruited patients based on prior acute care utilization or around the time of hospital discha...
To map the barriers and facilitators influencing infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in nursing homes (NHs) from a behavior change perspective and to identify research gaps.