In 10 years, post-acute care will resemble the hospitals of today, Rajeev Kumar, MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's. Hospital Review.
AMDA recently submitted comments in response to the white paper released by the Senate Committee on Finance, “Bolstering Chronic Care through Physician Payment: Current Challenges and Policy Options in Medicare Part B.” The white paper explored the background of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), i...
Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, the new House of Delegates (HOD) representative on the AMDA Board of Directors, brings a unique perspective to her role. Not only is she a clinician and researcher, but she also is a journalist. As Caring for the Ages editor-in-chief and frequent contributor to this publication ...
Ambulatory measurements of trunk accelerations can provide valuable insight into the amount and quality of daily life activities. Such information has been used to create models to identify individuals at high risk of falls. However, external validation of such prediction models is lacking, yet crucial for...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on July 12, 2024. Launched in early March, the CHOPD payments were designed to ease cash flow disruptions...
An AMDA On-The-Go podcast recorded during PALTC24 in San Antonio, TX—Deprescribing of Anticoagulants: The IF, WHEN and HOW—featured clinical pearls and more from Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD; Nicole Orr, MD; and Irene Hamrick, MD, CMD.