Policy Snapshot
January 17, 2025
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Policy Snapshot
January 17, 2025
CMS Moves Closer to Accountable Care Goals with 2025 Accountable Care Organization Initiatives
In a recently released report, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) states that the agency has made substantial progress on its goal for all people with traditional Medicare to be in a care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care by 2030. As of January 2025, 53...
Policy Snapshot
January 17, 2025
CMS Revises Surveyor Guidance Again, Delays Implementation to March 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced updates to the revised nursing home surveyor guidance initially released in November 2024. These updates encompass revised guidance and training for nursing services and the Payroll-Based Journal Staffing Report. Additionally, CMS is exte...
JAMDA
January 16, 2025
Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: Telemedicine Mental Health Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic
To examine racial and ethnic differences in telemedicine mental health (tele-MH) use among nursing home (NH) long-stay residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) during the pandemic.
JAMDA
January 16, 2025
Transitions to Nursing Homes among Residents of Assisted Living and Community-Dwelling Home Care Recipients
To examine transitions to a nursing home among residents of assisted living relative to community-dwelling home care recipients.
Policy Snapshot
January 15, 2025
CMS Launches Nursing Home Staffing Campaign
Providing safe, quality care in nursing homes is a top priority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Nursing home workers play a vital role in supporting residents with essential daily tasks, such as bathing, dressing, mobility, and eating. They also ensure medications are taken, and ...
Policy Snapshot
January 13, 2025
CMS Reminds Clinicians to Use Correct Place of Service Codes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a reminder to clinicians about the importance of using the correct Place of Service (POS) codes on Medicare claims. These codes are crucial for ensuring proper payment for services provided to patients in various inpatient facilities, such a...
JAMDA
January 11, 2025
Oily Fish Intake Is Inversely Associated with Impaired Functionality: A Population-based Study in Frequent Fish Consumers Aged 60 years or More Living in Rural Ecuador
Spotlight
January 10, 2025
Tackling the Compassion Crisis: PALTC25 Keynoter Brings Science to Solutions
PALTC25 Keynoter Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, Edward D. Viner Endowed Chief of Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, professor and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School, and author of Wonder Drug and Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, says, “We h...
JAMDA
January 10, 2025
Effects of Nursing Home Changes in Antipsychotic Use on Outcomes among Residents with Dementia
Little information exists on whether nationwide efforts to reduce antipsychotic use among nursing home (NH) residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias improved mortality and hospitalization outcomes for residents. Our objective was to examine the effect of NH decreases in antipsychotic u...
