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Senate Finance Committee Releases Report on Concurrent Surgeries

Dec 9, 2016 | Legislation, Medicare

The United States Senate Committee on Finance released a report this week on the practice of concurrent and overlapping surgeries. According to the committee’s news release, the report “outlines a number of shortfalls at the federal level in monitoring and auditing...

AAHKS Signs on to CMS Refinement Panel Letter

Sep 2, 2016 | Medicare

In a letter to CMS Acting Administrator, Andrew M. Slavitt, AAHKS joined other medical societies in recommending that CMS restores the Refinement Panel to serve as the relative value appeals process that was appropriately in place prior to 2011. CMS had convened the...

AAHKS Leaders to Visit CMS and Capitol Hill

Aug 5, 2016 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, Bundled Payments, CMS, Medicare

AAHKS leadership are heading to Baltimore and Washington, DC, to meet with officials from the CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and Members of Congress. Discussion will revolve around Advanced Alternate Payment Model (APM) requirements, and how...

Refinements to the BPCI Initiative Models

Jul 29, 2016 | Advocacy, Medicare

CMS intends to implement a new voluntary bundled payment model for CY 2018, based upon BPCI, where the model(s) would be designed to meet the criteria to be an Advanced APM. The BPCI initiative Models 2, 3, and 4 would not currently qualify as Advanced APMs based on...

Upcoming Quality Payment Program Call

Jul 29, 2016 | Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting the Quality Payment Program National Stakeholder Call on Monday, August 1, 2016, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET. The number to call is 1-800-837-1935, and conference ID is 43116806. TTY...

Military Health System Bundling TJR

Apr 8, 2016 | Medicare

The United States Department of Defense issued a notice that they have started a test bundled payment process called “TRICARE Bundled Payment for Lower Extremity Joint Replacement or Reattachment” (LEJR). According to the statement, TRICARE will be based on the CJR...