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January 15, 2025
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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...
JAMDA
January 9, 2025
Exploring the Sources and Experiences of Joy in Caregiving: Insights From Formal Caregivers in Long-Term Care
To explore and understand the sources and experiences of joy in caregiving among formal caregivers in Canadian long-term care (LTC).
Policy Snapshot
January 6, 2025
2024 QPP Data Submission is Now Open
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened data submission for the 2024 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 PM ET on March 31, 2025.
Policy Snapshot
January 6, 2025
Respiratory Illness Reporting Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities in 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a memorandum (QSO-25-11-NH) outlining new reporting requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities. Effective January 1, 2025, LTC facilities must electronically report data on COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV...
Policy Snapshot
January 6, 2025
Congress at the End of 2024: Implications for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Clinicians in 2025
In December 2024, Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) aimed at funding the federal government through March 14, 2025, and addressing various health-care issues. This package, signed into law by President Biden on December 20, 2024, includes several key provisions impacting post-acute and long-term...
JAMDA
January 3, 2025
Frail Older Adults with High Anticholinergic Burden are at Risk of Orthostatic Hypotension
Frailty has been shown to be linked with orthostatic hypotension (OH) in older adults, but the role of anticholinergic drugs in this relationship never has been explored. The purpose of this was to examine the relationship between anticholinergic burden (ACB) and OH in frail older adults living in the comm...
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