Feb 23, 2024 | Advocacy, Bundled Payments, Reimbursement
CMS recently approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work under principal care management (PCM) codes. Watch the recent AAHKS webinar to learn how you and your staff can use PCM codes to document pre-opt care and regain value within TJA...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Practice Management, Reimbursement
After CMS devalued TJA reimbursement in 2019, AAHKS worked diligently with CMS and the RUC to determine how to capture and pay for pre-optimization work by orthopaedic surgeons. In late 2022 CMS approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, AJRR, Committees and Task Forces, Young Arthroplasty Group, Young Arthroplasty Group Podcast
In this episode of The Augment, AAOS President Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA, joins Young Arthroplasty Group (YAG) hosts Jesse Wolfstadt, MD, MSc, FRCSC and Jenna A. Bernstein, MD to examine value-based care and the program of longitudinal care he developed at the...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Legislation
Last week AAHKS joined more than a dozen other national medical societies to write the Congressional leadership of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding Section 5 of the “Health Care PRICE Transparency Act 2.0,” (S.3548) which...
Jan 18, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined 128 other national and state medical societies in writing Congressional leaders “to quickly pass legislation to reverse the 3.37 percent Medicare physician payment cuts that took effect on January 1, 2024.” As further noted, “Physicians are the...
Jan 3, 2024 | AAHKS Amplified, Advocacy, CMS, Performance Measures
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: TuneIn | RSS | -In this episode of Amplified, Dr. Rana hosts Dr. Huddleston and Dr. Sterling to discuss the new mandatory Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee...