The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published Open Payments Program Year 2025 data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for Program Years 2019–2024. The data is accessible on the Open Payments Search Tool.
To examine the short-term within-individual changes in residents’ depressive and behavioral symptoms following the March 2020 lockdown in US nursing homes.
Rising eldercare expenditures and rapid aging of the US population have intensified pressures on families, who increasingly provide both direct “hands-on” care and financial support (“transfers”) to aging relatives. To elucidate how population aging is reflected in families’ financial caregiving roles, thi...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been linked to cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). This study examined the sex-specific differences in CSVD between patients with and without AF and the implications for cognitive and physical performance.
In January 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), the most substantial revision to Medicare's home health (HH) prospective payment system since its introduction in 2000. PDGM shortened the payment period from 60 to 30 days and elim...