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Policy Snapshot
January 5, 2026
New CMS LEAD Model Aims to Expand Access to ACOs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) Model as the Innovation Center’s next Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, which will focus on reaching more health-care providers who have not joined ACOs, while providing care for pati...
JAMDA
March 20, 2021
“Somebody Like Me”: Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Staff in Skilled Nursing Facilities
The vaccination of skilled nursing facility (SNF) staff is a critical component in the battle against COVID-19. Together, residents and staff constitute the single most vulnerable population in the pandemic. The health of these workers is completely entangled with the health of those they care for. Vaccina...
Policy Snapshot
June 21, 2024
CMS Preparing to Close Program that Addressed Medicare Funding Issues Resulting from Change Healthcare Cyber-Attack
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on July 12, 2024. Launched in early March, the CHOPD payments were designed to ease cash flow disruptions...
JAMDA
September 13, 2022
Systematic Review of Rural and Urban Differences in Care Provided by Home Health Agencies in the United States
Home health care agencies (HHAs) are skilled care providers for Medicare home health beneficiaries in the United States. Rural HHAs face different challenges from their urban counterparts in delivering care (eg, longer distances to travel to patient homes leading to higher fuel/travel costs and fewer numbe...
JAMDA
February 25, 2021
A Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Short Form for Measuring Physical Function During Geriatric Rehabilitation: Test-Retest Reliability, Construct Validity, Responsiveness, and Interpretability
To study the test-retest reliability and measurement error, construct validity, responsiveness, interpretability, and floor/ceiling effects of a Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) short form designed to measure physical function in geriatric rehabilitation patients (PROMIS-PF...
Policy Snapshot
February 23, 2024
LTC Providers Release Recommendations to Enhance LTC Providers’ Role in Value-Based Care
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) and the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) jointly released a set of recommendations that were recently shared with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that, if implemented, would increase the par...
Policy Snapshot
January 5, 2026
CMS Announces $50 Billion in Awards to Strengthen Rural Health in All 50 States
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that all 50 states will receive awards under the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative established under the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation (Public Law 119-21) to strengthen and modernize health care in rural co...
JAMDA
December 4, 2018
London Transfer Project: Reducing Medication Incidents After Discharge From Hospital to Long-term Care
Long-term care (LTC) homes expressed concern that patients had experienced medication incidents after hospital discharge as a result of poor coordination of care.
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