Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

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MOELI May Point Way to Better End-of-Life Planning, Author Says

September 25, 2017
AMDA in the News
Provider Nation
Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
There is an interesting new development in the end-of-life planning space, with some experts in the field saying they back changes to the existing system to ensure that the wishes of patients are adhered to in a more organized and efficient manner...

Authors Propose Evolving POLST into MOELI as Optimal Way to Document, Communicate Patient Wishes, Preferences

August 29, 2017
Press Release
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered
Ensuring that patients’ wishes about their care are respected has long been a priority for post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners. “ Standardizing Protection of Patients' Rights From POLST to MOELI (Medical Orders for End-of-Life...

A17 - A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO ADVANCE CARE PLANNING DISCUSSIONS IN THE PALTC SETTING

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practitioners
PURPOSE The purpose of this White Paper is to highlight the importance of Advance Care Planning conversations and informed medical decision-making in the PALTC setting. Additionally, the White Paper will serve to delineate the prerequisites and key...

Competencies Curriculum Bundle (Domains I-V)

Competencies Curriculum
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Heart Failure, Assisted Living, Hospice, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Change of Condition, Dementia, Ethics, Falls, Federal Regulations, F-Tags, Medical Staff Oversight, Survey, Surveyor Guidance, Constipation and Diarrhea, Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Pneumonia, Medication Management, Delirium, Pain Management, Parkinson's Disease, Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Pressure Ulcers, Quality, Improvement, Measures, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI), Resident, Assessment, Sleep Disorders, Urinary Incontinence, Wounds
NP/PA, Physician
This is the complete package of the Competencies Curriculum . It contains Domains I – V of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine's Competencies Curriculum for Attending Physicians Practicing in Post-Acute and Long Term Care...

Policy Webinar Bundle

Archived Webinars
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), F-Tags, Medication, Patient Centered, Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Quality, Improvement, Organizations, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
These four programs will answer your questions about some of the most complicated policy issues facing PALTC practitioners. Save when you purchase the following four webinars as a bundle: Overview of New CMS Nursing Facility Requirements of...

Incomplete End-of-Life Forms Vex Physicians

October 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
Medscape
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered
A study of elderly patients' end-of-life forms found that 69% had at least one section left blank, and 14% indicated the patient wanted comfort measures only, but also that they wanted be sent to the hospital, receive intravenous fluids, and/or...

Senior Living Team Can Help Clarify Older Adults' End-of-Life Wishes

October 4, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
Physicians' Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves. A study published last week in the Journal of the...

Study: Confusion on End-of-Life Forms Can Cause Elderly Patients to Receive More Emergency Care Than They May Have Wanted

September 28, 2016
AMDA in the News
University at Buffalo the State University of New York
End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), End-of-Life, Patient Centered, Resident, Risk
In recent years, Physicians’ Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments (POLST) forms have been seen as an important way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly or terminally ill patients who cannot speak for themselves. But while the goal of...

Parameters for Discussing and Billing for the New Advance Care Plan Code

Archived Webinars
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes
Physician
Beginning January 1, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began reimbursing for time spent discussing advance care planning with patients. The two new current procedural technology (CPT) advanced care planning codes (ACP) (...

Competencies Curriculum Domain III: Systems

Competencies Curriculum
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Assisted Living, Hospice, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Medication Management, Payment, Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Resident, Assessment
Physician
This is Domain III of V of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine's Competencies Curriculum for Attending Physicians Practicing in Post-Acute and Long Term Care . See below for information on content included in Domain III,...