Medical Rehab Matters AMRPA

Our fourth season kicks off with a discussion and update on the Review Choice Demonstration or RCD as it expands into Pennsylvania in June. Our guests are Dr. Alberto Esquenazi, Chief Medical Officer at MossRehab in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and a member of the AMRPA Board of Directors; Andrew Baird, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Legislation, and Regulations at Encompass Health and co-chair of AMRPA’s RCD Workgroup; and Joe Nahra, AMRPA Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy.  This episode is hosted Kate Beller, AMRPA President of Government Relations. 

Recorded at the 2023 AMRPA Fall Conference and Expo, we present a panel discussion looking ahead ‎at the future of inpatient medical rehabilitation featuring Kate Beller, JD, EVP for Policy Development and Government Relations, AMRPA; Anthony Cuzzola, Vice President, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; Troy Hillman, Director of Quality and Health Policy, AMRPA; and Joe Nahra, Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy, AMRPA. 

In this episode we're talking about the AMRPA Medical Rehabilitation Managment Certification -- or MRMC. We talk with two of the team that created and manages the program, and two people who earned their MRMC in 2021, Scott Littig, MBA, MRMC, MA, CCC/SLP, and Renee Lomax, MSN-Admin, BSN, RN, CRN-C10, MRMC. And certificants  Misty A. Brady, PT, DPT, MRMC, and Belinda Lemcool, MSN, RN, CRRN, MRMC. Learn more about earning your MRMC at www.amrpa.org/certification. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, AMRPA Director of Communications. 

CMS’ Review Choice Demonstration will begin impacting inpatient medical rehab hospitals and units in Alabama summer 2023. We discuss possible implications for patients, including possible access to care issues. This episode is intended to be educational as we approach the start of the program. Additional information was released while we were recording. And we'll address that, and other updates, in future episodes as the RCD moves forward.  

Our guests are Anthony Cuzzola, chair of the AMRPA Board, and Joe Nahra, AMRPA’s Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy.  Hosts: Dr. Robert Krug, past chair of the AMRPA Board of Directors, and Kate Beller, Executive Vice President for Policy Development and Government Relations.