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JAMDA
April 3, 2025
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PALTmed In The News
April 3, 2025
Aging services coalition expresses concerns about reorganization to HHS secretary
In the wake of the Department of Health and Human Services announcing a “dramatic restructuring” of the agency, reassurances that the changes will not affect critical services are anything but reassuring to groups that provide services to older adults.
JAMDA
April 2, 2025
End-of-Life Acute Care Use and Pain-Related Outcomes in Chinese-speaking Residents in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes
Patients from ethnically minoritized communities often face disparities in health care due to language and cultural barriers. This study aimed to compare health care use and end-of-life outcomes between Chinese-speaking residents living in language-concordant and language-discordant long-term care (LTC) ho...
JAMDA
March 31, 2025
Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome Improves Agitation and Sleep in Persons with Dementia: A Randomized Trial
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), a common, treatable, sensorimotor disorder of nighttime uncomfortable leg sensations that interfere with sleep, may prompt nighttime agitation in persons with dementia.
Policy Snapshot
March 31, 2025
CMS Issues Guidance on Improving Payment Accuracy for Physician Services in SNFs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new MLN Matters aimed at enhancing payment accuracy for physician services provided in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Effective July 1, 2025, these measures will address common misclassifications of Place of Service (POS) codes that ...
Policy Snapshot
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Submits Statement for House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Hearing on Post-Acute Care
In written comments to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Hearing, After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care, PALTmed President Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, highlighted key challenges in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). These include workforce shortages, o...
News Release
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Announces 2025-2026 Board of Directors
Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) has elected its 2025-2026 Board of Directors. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, is president; Leslie Beth Eber, MD, CMD, is president-elect; and Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, is vice president.
Spotlight
March 31, 2025
Medical Director of the Year: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future
William Mercer, MD, CMD, the 2025 Medical Director of the Year, vividly remembers how he got involved with post-acute and long-term care and with PALTmed (then known as AMDA). The local hospital, which had a long-term care skilled unit, approached him and asked if he’d like to be the medical director. He w...
JAMDA
March 31, 2025
Trends in End-of-Life Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents between 2011 and 2020: Analyses of German Health Insurance Data
To investigate trends in end-of-life hospitalizations among nursing home residents between 2011 and 2020.
JAMDA
March 28, 2025