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March 18, 2025
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Policy Snapshot
March 18, 2025
Congressional Spending Bill Fails to Address Physician Fee Cuts but Extends Telehealth Benefit
Last week, Congress passed a government funding bill to avert a shutdown, but it notably lacked provisions addressing the 2.8% Medicare physician payment cut that took effect on January 1, 2025. PALTmed had hoped the bill would include provisions from the bipartisan Medicare Patient Access and Practice Sta...
JAMDA
March 17, 2025
Consumer-Directed Personal Care in the New York Metropolitan Area: Trends in Use From 2017 to 2022
Despite growing interest in expansion of consumer- (or self-) directed models of Medicaid-funded personal care, research characterizing program use is limited. We leverage health plan and claims data from a large health plan in New York to examine (1) trends in use of consumer-directed care and (2) the imp...
JAMDA
March 14, 2025
Intervention Response of Muscle Architecture and Composition Markers Assessed via Ultrasound Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
To evaluate the response of skeletal muscle architecture (fascicle length and pennation angle) and composition (echo intensity) markers assessed by ultrasonography to intervention in older adults.
JAMDA
March 14, 2025
Association of Racial and Ethnic Composition with Staff Levels in Nursing Homes: 2013-2019
The nursing home (NH) population has become increasingly diverse, yet many facilities remain de facto racially segregated. This study examines whether a high proportion of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) residents is associated with nursing staff levels.
JAMDA
March 14, 2025
Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Home vs Non-home Medical Care Physicians in Japan
To compare the use of point-of-care ultrasound between physicians providing home medical care and other physicians in Japan.
JAMDA
March 13, 2025
Physicians Who Provide Primary Care in US Nursing Homes: Characteristics and Care Patterns
To examine practice trends and characteristics of primary care physicians providing care in US nursing homes.
JAMDA
March 13, 2025
Effectiveness of My Tools for Care-in Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Few supports exist for family/friend care partners when the care recipient is a person living with dementia in a care home. This study assessed the effectiveness of My Tools for Care-In Care (MT4C-In Care), a self-administered, web-based psychoeducational intervention.
JAMDA
March 13, 2025
Assessing a Statewide Nursing Home Staffing Program through Quantitative and Qualitative Survey Data
To use quantitative and qualitative data to assess nursing home administrators’ perceptions of a program using personal care attendants (PCAs) to ease staffing challenges, and to better understand factors concerning perceptions of success of lack thereof.
JAMDA
March 13, 2025