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Spotlight

August 8, 2024

Ensure Your Words Make a Positive Difference

The words we use and how we use them can significantly impact the effectiveness of our interactions with others. In a recent podcast, host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, and guest Aya Caspi, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, discussed how to speak and listen in ways that let...
PALTmed In The News

August 5, 2024

Long-term care docs warn why better oversight of diagnostic testing is needed

To test or not to test? It’s a question that often plagues healthcare professionals as they try to decide which diagnostic procedures are necessary for the treatment of their patients — and those which are not needed, or may even be harmful. There is no time to waste when it comes to getting better at diag...
Policy Snapshot

August 2, 2024

2025 Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Final Rule Released

On July 31, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2025. CMS is publishing this final rule that ...
Policy Snapshot

August 2, 2024

Chevron Deference Decision (Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo)

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision overturning Chevron (Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo) will change the way agencies issue regulations and Congress considers legislation, including health-policy legislation, because courts no longer will defer to agencies’ statutory interpretation of ambiguous s...
Spotlight

August 1, 2024

Social Media Committee Seeks to Engage, Educate, Enliven, and Encourage

Shauna Assadzandi, MD, chair of AMDA’s Social Media Committee, has a vision of the future, and it includes engaging Society members and other stakeholders on social media and using various platforms to encourage and enable communication, education, information exchanges, and even some fun. “I love my AMDA ...
Spotlight

July 24, 2024

An Exciting Time for Advocacy

Just because you’re a clinician doesn’t mean you can’t be a savvy advocate. In fact, the two roles often go hand in hand. On the most recent AMDA On-The-Hill podcast, Timothy Holahan, DO, CMD, chair of the Society’s Public Policy Steering Committee, talked about policy updates with host Alex Bardakh, MPP, ...