Navigating the New Antipsychotic Quality Measure: Compliance, Coding, and Five-Star Impact
The January 2026 CMS revisions to the Long-Stay Antipsychotic Quality Measure—now incorporating Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage claims—create a more expansive and sensitive methodology that can trigger the measure even when antipsychotics were not administered during the MDS look-back period. This shift, combined with CMS concerns around underreporting and inaccurate diagnosis coding, places heightened pressure...
New! COVID-19 QuickPATH© Resources
Pathway Health has developed several downloadable, streamlined resources which include detailed information for leaders, an implementation checklist, sample policy and procedure, competency checklist, education with speakers notes, training plan, posttest, audit tool, and more. In collaboration with LeadingAge, the below QuickPATH© resources were written based on re-opening recommendations, current guidance, and requirements/standards of practice. They are essential strategies and requirements...
