JAMDA
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Policy Snapshot
November 8, 2024
CMS Implements New Respiratory Illness Reporting Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), which includes updates to Medicare payment policies and rates for Home Health Agencies (HHAs). Among the key changes, CMS is finalizing a new dat...
Practice Management Tools
Guide to Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation
Extensively updated to reflect major E/M coding changes for 2023, The Guide to Post-Acute and Long Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation, is a popular and must-have publication that contains important documentation and medical decision making requirements as well as one or two Society-develope...
JAMDA
July 5, 2021
Lessons Learned From Ohio's Statewide Implementation of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory as a Pay for Performance Initiative to Enhance Person-Centered Care
Person-centered care (PCC) in nursing homes is an elusive organizational goal that has attracted the attention of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. P4P programs are used to incentivize providers to improve the quality of care delivered. However, P4P programs have both overarching policy initiatives (big ...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Evidence for Action: Addressing Systemic Racism Across Long-Term Services and Supports
Long-term services and supports (LTSS), including care received at home and in residential settings such as nursing homes, are highly racially segregated; Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPOC) users have less access to quality care and report poorer quality of life compared to their White counter...
JAMDA
August 15, 2020
Does Universal Testing for COVID-19 Work for Everyone?
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been especially devastating among nursing home residents, with both the health circumstances of individual residents as well as communal living settings contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 infection requir...
JAMDA
October 6, 2022
The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: The Next Generation of Data Integration
Despite important advances in the linkage of residents’ Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set (MDS) information, the data infrastructure for long-term care remains inadequate for public health surveillance and clinical research. It is widely known that the evidence base supporting treatment decisions for ol...
Policy Snapshot
October 29, 2021
OIG Recommends CMS Analyze 3-Day Requirement for SNF Stays and Infection Control Surveys
Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its OIG’s Top Unimplemented Recommendations: Solutions to Reduce Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in HHS Programs annual report. This year’s report focused on the top 25 unimplemented recommendations that would most positively affect Department of Health an...
JAMDA
June 11, 2020
How a Barcelona Post-Acute Facility became a Referral Center for Comprehensive Management of Subacute Patients With COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic's greatest impact is among older adults. Management of the situation requires a systemic response, and post-acute care (PAC) can provide an adequate mix of active treatment, management of associated geriatric syndromes and palliative care, both in the acute phase, and in post–COV...
Spotlight
June 27, 2024