The Society, along with the American Medical Association (AMA) and 118 other leading medical societies, united in strong support of the meaningful prior authorization reforms proposed for Medicare Advantage and the Medicare prescription drug benefit...
National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call on February 22 Please join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this Wednesday, February 22, 2023. at 3:00 PM ET for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call. Long-term care providers,...
The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. IRF Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) assessment data and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2022 Performance Period Suppressed and Truncated MIPS Quality Measures List announcing that quality measure 238: Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults will be suppressed for...
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation’s new prescription drug law, drug companies for the first time ever will pay rebates to Medicare when their prescription drug prices increase faster than the rate of inflation for certain drugs...
Last week, President Biden announced he would seek to end the public health emergency (PHE) declaration on May 11, 2023. The Biden Administration previously stated that it would give states a 60-day notice before the PHE expires. The PHE was...
Last week, the National Quality Forum (NQF) delivered recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on quality measures being considered for use in 17 Medicare quality programs affecting more than 64 million Americans...
On Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 1:00 PM ET, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar that will provide an overview of the suggested QCDR measure development and evaluation processes. CMS and PIMMS will also...
View the January refresh of Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program data on Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog . See the updates section at the bottom of the Public Reporting webpage for more information.
Representatives Mike Levin (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) re-introduced The Nursing Home Disclosure Act (H. R. 177). The bipartisan bill would require nursing homes to report their medical directors to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
