In most cases, Medicare will not pay for the cost of long-term care, including assisted living and nursing homes. Medicare will, however, cover your stay in a long-term-care facility for up to 100 days following a severe injury or major surgery. This is so you can receive skilled nursin...
This article will educate NPs on the 13 qualifying criteria outlined by CMS (CMS-13) in order to ensure clients receive the proper level of rehabilitation care.doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2010.07.009Brent J. WetendorfDebra WalkerElsevier Inc.Journal for Nurse Practitioners...
This is particularly an issue with LDCT, where we generated rates for an age-appropriate population but could not determine which enrollees satisfied the other criteria for LDCT screening, in particular, smoking status. The assumption is that the temporal pattern in rates generated using the larger...
Your doctor is the first step to getting a mobility aid. Your evaluation may be performed by an occupational therapist. However, the doctor must write a prescription for Medicare patients. To determine which mobility product is right for you, the doctor or therapist will use certain criteria. D...
Even without a gold standard for assessing service appropriateness, the relative sensitivity and specificity of our measures can be inferred from the clinical criteria we applied. For example, limiting the colorectal cancer screening measure to beneficiaries older than 85 years instead of older than 75...
ensure that beneficiaries have access to these opportunities. Coverage includes cancer-related clinical trials that meet specific criteria and standards established by Medicare. This allows eligible beneficiaries to explore innovative treatment options while receiving financial support for necessary medical ...
This final rule specifies the Stage 2 criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet in ord... HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS 被引量: 267发表: 2012年 Strategies for improving comorbidity measures based on Medicare...
Figure S1. Eligibility criteria for Medicare beneficiaries initiating antihypertensive monotherapy between 2008 and 2011. Figure S2. Weighted Kaplan-Meier curves for incident fractures according duration of use and antihypertensive drug class. (DOCX 134 kb)...
we used data on clinical quality measures reported to CMS as part of the ACO program.24These data are reported to CMS for a different randomly selected sample of beneficiaries for each measure. Beneficiaries met exclusion/inclusion criteria as defined by each measure definition in accordance with ...
This final rule specifies the Stage 2 criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet in ord... HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS 被引量: 267发表: 2012年 Strategies for improving comorbidity measures based on Medicare...