Apr 22, 2016 | Advocacy, Bundled Payments, CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week that awardees who started participation in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative in October 2013 and are scheduled to end in 2016, are now able to extend participation in...
Apr 22, 2016 | Bundled Payments
An article on NPR’s All Things Considered reports that some major companies in the US, including Lowe’s home improvement company and Walmart, offer their employees surgery for some major operations with no out-of-pocket costs. The companies are making...
Apr 15, 2016 | Annual Meeting
The AAHKS Program Committee is calling for Abstract submissions for the 26th Annual Meeting taking place November 10-13, 2016 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, USA. The high caliber content of the Annual Meeting is enriched by the presentations made at the...
Apr 15, 2016 | AAHKS Business, AAHKS Leadership, Research
Research The Knee Society, supported by AAHKS, the NIH, AAOS and others conducted a research conference, “Strategies to Improve Total Knee Arthroplasty” this week in Bethesda, Md. In attendance were AAHKS Immediate Past President Jay R. Lieberman, MD, Executive...
