Cholera is a disease spread by drinking water or eating food contaminated with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Severe cholera is characterized by large amounts of watery diarrhea, often described as “rice-water stool” because it can have a pale, milky appearance. It can also be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. If untreated, the loss of fluid can be deadly. But simple treatment, including replacing lost body fluids, can lower mortality to less than 1%. From 2010 through 2014, 91 cases of cholera were confirmed in the United States among people who had traveled internationally in the week before illness onset. Of these, 75% were associated with travel to the Caribbean, and 10% were associated with travel to India or Pakistan. Cholera can be prevented by heeding food and water precautions and receiving cholera vaccine before travel.
During this COCA Call, CDC travel medicine subject matter expert and infectious diseases physician Dr. Kristina Angelo and food and water expert Dr. Erin Connors will
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET
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Kristina M. Angelo, DO, MPH&TM
Medical Epidemiologist
Travelers’ Health Branch
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Erin Conners, PhD, MPH
Epidemic Intelligence Officer
Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
To receive continuing education (CE) for WC2922-020719 – (Webcast) Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Calls/Webinars – "Clinical Update: Cholera Vaccine for Travelers" – February 7, 2019 please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps by March 11, 2019.
To receive continuing education (CE) for WD2922-020719 – Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Calls/Webinars – "Clinical Update: Cholera Vaccine for Travelers" – February 7, 2019 (Web on Demand), please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps by March 8, 2021.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool based on calculations from the third snapshot of data from Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities. The third snapshot includes data from Medicare Part B claims with dates of service between January 1 and August 31, 2018. As a reminder, the tool includes 2018 Qualifying APM Participant (QP) and MIPS APM status.
For those in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, a fourth snapshot date, December 31, will apply to you. It’s used for determining which eligible clinicians are participating in a MIPS APM for purposes of the APM scoring standard.
Note: If you are in participating in a MIPS APM (and do not qualify as a QP or Partial QP), you will most likely need to participate in MIPS, but will be subject to the APM Scoring Standard.
To learn more about how CMS determines QP and MIPS APM status for each snapshot, please view the QP Methodology Fact Sheet.
What Does QP Status and MIPS APM Status Mean?
If you qualify as a QP, this means you are:
How Do I Check My QP or MIPS APM Status?
To view your QP or MIPS APM status at the individual level:
To check your group’s 2018 eligibility at the APM entity level:
What APMs are Included in the QPP Participation Status Tool?
The updated Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool includes the following 2018 Advanced APMs and MIPS APMs:
For a comprehensive list of APMs, visit the QPP Resource Library.
Questions?
Contact the Quality Payment Program Service Center by:
Please click to read press release: Update on Blood Pressure Medication Recall.pdf
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Updated Independent Medical Examiner List
Please be advised that effective November 29, 2018, editing will be implemented on prescriptions for topical compounded drug products. See attachment for details.
New Online Tool Displays Cost Differences for Certain Surgical ProceduresProcedure Price Lookup will help patients with Medicare consider potential cost differences when choosing among safe and clinically appropriate settings
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new online tool that allows consumers to compare Medicare payments and copayments for certain procedures that are performed in both hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers. The Procedure Price Lookup tool displays national averages for the amount Medicare pays the hospital or ambulatory surgical center and the national average copayment amount a beneficiary with no Medicare supplemental insurance would pay the provider.
“Price transparency in health care is a priority for the Trump Administration. Working with their clinicians, the Procedure Price Lookup will help patients with Medicare consider potential cost differences when choosing where to have a medical procedure that best meets their needs,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
The Procedure Price Lookup tool is launching as required by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act. Medicare’s statutes require that CMS maintain separate payment systems for different types of healthcare providers, meaning both CMS and patients may pay different amounts for the same service, depending on the site of care.
“The different payment rates are a prime example of Medicare’s misaligned financial incentives, under which providers can make more money if they see patients at one location as opposed to another,” Administrator Verma said.
Procedure Price Lookup, part of the agency’s eMedicare initiative, joins other patient-oriented transparency tools, including an overhauled version of the agency’s drug pricing and spending dashboards, which provide patients with Medicare and Medicaid spending information for thousands more drugs than ever before and, for the first time, list the prescription drug manufacturers that were responsible for price increases.
CMS recently launched the eMedicare initiative to empower beneficiaries with cost and quality information. This announcement included the launch of an enhanced interactive online decision support feature to help people better understand and evaluate their Medicare coverage options. eMedicare also offers a mobile-optimized out-of-pocket cost calculator to provide beneficiaries with information on overall plan costs and prescription drug costs.
For a blog post on the Procedure Price Lookup took by Administrator Verma, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/blog/you-have-right-know-price.
The Procedure Price Lookup tool is available at: https://www.medicare.gov/procedure-price-lookup/.
Below are links to MLMIC’s most recent issues of Dateline and Case Review that can be found at MLMIC.com.
