Mar 13, 2015 | Advocacy, Medicare
The Hill is reporting that House leaders are closer to a deal that would permanently avert Medicare payment cuts to physicians. “The deal would offset only about $70 billion of the more than $200 billion cost of making the permanent fix,” they report. While there are...
Mar 13, 2015 | Humanitarian Organizations
Jim Harper of San Luis Obispo, California has started an online campaign to help raise funds for Operation Walk USA. He received a hip replacement in 2010 and plans to walk the more than 2,600 miles of the Pacific Coast Trail starting May 1, 2015. “I would like to...
Mar 13, 2015 | International, Performance Measures
The Total Joint Arthroplasty Outcome Measures Toolkit developed by the Bone and Joint Canada (BJC) is now available on the BJC website. This toolkit enables health care providers to select, apply, score and interpret outcome measures for patients with total joint...
Mar 13, 2015 | In the News
The article “Mom on the Move” in the Winter 2015 issue of NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Connections magazine features a 24-year old patient with rheumatoid arthritis who had two hip replacements. Her surgeon, AAHKS member, Lalit Puri, MD, MBA, talks about the...
Mar 13, 2015 | In the News
Roy I. Davidovitch, MD was interviewed for Orthopedics This Week for reportedly completing the first outpatient hip arthoplasy at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Dr. Davidovitch talks about the collaboration of his team, the anterior approach he used, the...