CMS Releases Orthopaedic Quality Measures

Feb 26, 2016 | Medicare

On February 16, CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment on core measures...

What You Need to Know about CJR

Feb 26, 2016 | Medicare

In about one month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR) will kick off. This five-year program begins on April 1, 2016. Under the CJR model, acute care hospitals in certain selected geographic areas...

See Demo of AJRR PRO Dashboard

Feb 26, 2016 | AJRR

AAHKS members have been receiving informational packets from the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) in the mail this week. If you have further questions or would like to view a demonstration of the new AJRR Level III patient-reported outcome (PRO) dashboard...

FDA Approves Stem Options for Hip System

Feb 26, 2016 | Corporate Partners, In the News

The FDA has granted 510(k) approval for an additional range of stem options for the “MetaFix” hip stem system by Corin. This range includes collared hydroxyapatite-coated stems and short neck variants. View the FDA 501 (k) premarket notification and summary for more...

Meet Meaningful Use Requirement with AJRR

Feb 19, 2016 | AJRR

Total joint surgeons can meet the CMS’s public health reporting objective by submitting data to the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR).  The hip and knee replacement registry provides the easiest and most cost-effective way to meet the objective in Stage...
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