Oct 6, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
Last week AAHKS submitted input to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Development of a Hospital-Level 90-Day Risk-Standardized Complication Rate (RSCR) Following Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)...
Sep 30, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
Last week AAHKS joined the American Medical Association (AMA) and 122 other national specialty and state medical societies in calling on Congressional leadership to work with the physician community to address the “deeply alarm[ing]…mounting financial instability of...
Sep 30, 2022 | Advocacy, Fellowships
The deadline to submit an application for the 2023-2024 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship is Friday, September 30. The program, which runs on the calendar year, is open to orthopaedic surgeons in the United States currently participating in a Joint/Adult Reconstruction...
Sep 30, 2022 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Surveys
As part of our ongoing commitment to health policy advocacy, the AAHKS Advocacy Committee invites you to participate in a brief poll. The goals of this poll are to better identify the most pressing health policy issues affecting the AAHKS community and guide the...
Sep 16, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy
AAHKS leaders met with members of Congress to urge them to pass prior authorization and physician safety legislation, as well as physician payment updates. Representatives Ami Bera, MD (D-CA) and Larry Bucshon, MD (R-IN) introduced Supporting Medicare Providers Act of...
Sep 16, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
This week, AAHKS submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule for calendar year 2023. The comments included support for proposed increases to the weights of...
