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August 26, 2024
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PALTmed Fellowship Program
The Fellow of PALTmed (FPALTC) designation is a prestigious, peer-reviewed credential that publicly acknowledges an individual’s ongoing dedication to the field of post-acute and long-term care medicine.
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March 3, 2025
PALTmed Joins Efforts to Advocate for Health-Care Funding and Protection of Medicaid
PALTmed has recently signed onto two advocacy letters. The first letter, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, calls for increased funding to improve the U.S. health-care system. The second letter, from the Alliance of Aging Research, urges congressional leaders to oppose proposed cuts to Me...
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August 30, 2024
PALTmed Joins Push to Pass Good Samaritan Legislation
The Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed), along with a long list of members of the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), supports bipartisan Good Samaritan legislation and continues to advocate for additional cosponsors. They highlight the need to empower medical volunteer...Basic Page
PALTmed Leadership Program
Clinical Alerts
April 11, 2025
PALTmed Measles Statement
Between January 1 and April 4, 2025, 607 measles cases have been confirmed across 21 U.S. states—the highest number recorded in the first three months of any year since 2019. That year, the U.S. reported 704 cases between January 1 and April 26, marking the largest outbreak since measles was declared elimi...
Practice Management Tools
PALTmed Model Medical Director Agreement and Supplemental Materials: Medical Director of a Nursing Facility
This package serves as a guide for agreements for medical director services in nursing facilities. It includes a model agreement between the medical director and the nursing facility; performance requirements and the roles and responsibilities of a medical director; PALTmed’s statement on compensation for ...
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September 13, 2024
PALTmed Submits Comments on 2025 Physician Fee Schedule
Last week, the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Calendar Year 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed rule. For 2025, CMS is proposing a cut to physician payment by 2.80% with a reduction of the con...
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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...
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April 4, 2025