How to ease Halloween fears for people with dementia … Medicare adds mental health services … Blood biomarkers can spot Parkinson’s with, without fatigue … BIIB080 lowers tau biomarkers in Alzheimer’s...
Study: People on Medicare with mental illness saw telehealth therapists more during pandemic
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 30, 2023
People with mental health problems received more healthcare visits if they went to practices that offered telehealth, a new study finds.
Finding long-term care solutions for people with serious mental illness
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 16, 2023
A new report offers insights into the identification and support of older individuals with serious mental illnesses who require appropriate long-term care solutions.
Now that’s crazy
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 25, 2023
I assume by now everybody is frantically auditing their resident’s charts for one word (or a derivative of it): schizophrenia! Because you might be audited for the inappropriate use of antipsychotics.
CMS leader balks on broader use of antipsychotic drugs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
One of the nation’s top nursing home regulators is opposed to broadening exclusions for the use of antipsychotic medications, he told attendees of a national conference Friday.
Will you pass CMS’s new schizophrenia MDS audits?
By
Steven Littlehale
Mar 31, 2023
In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started focused on-site surveys to address the issue of erroneous coding of schizophrenia in nursing homes. More recently, the agency began conducting...
Providers call for broader antipsychotic exclusions to help reduce schizophrenia diagnoses
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2023
Providers and quality experts are questioning why the agency hasn’t done more to review its quality measure for antipsychotic drug use.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, March 7
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 06, 2023
Resident falls account for 75% of insurance claims with payment in senior living … States track fallout from nurse licensing scam to more LTC facilities … FDA grants priority review for Alzheimer’s...
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 6
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 04, 2023
Providers pepper CMS with schizophrenia questions in ‘open door’ call … Home-based cardiac rehab linked to lower mortality rates … FDA sets goal to have flu and COVID combo vaccine ready in 2024...
With scope unknown, nursing homes brace for new schizophrenia audits
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Three weeks after federal officials announced they would begin auditing nursing homes for overuse of schizophrenia diagnoses, providers are still looking for answers about what those investigations will...