Apr 8, 2016 | AAHKS Business, Legislation, Medicare
Epstein Becker & Green reviewed the March Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) Report and prepared the following summary of issues AAHKS is tracking: MedPAC’s March Report includes analyses of payment adequacy in fee-for-service Medicare and makes...
Mar 4, 2016 | AAHKS Business, AAHKS Leadership
On March 2, 2016, William A. Jiranek, MD, FACS took office as the 26th President of AAHKS during the Board of Directors meeting in Orlando. Dr. Jiranek is Chief of Adult Reconstruction in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief of Musculoskeletal Health in the...
Mar 4, 2016 | AAHKS Business, AAHKS Leadership
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) selected AAHKS member David A. Halsey, MD as Second Vice President after serving as Chair of the Board of Specialty Societies for AAOS. At the AAHKS Board of Directors meeting on March 3, 2016, he stepped down from...
Mar 4, 2016 | AAHKS Business, AAHKS Leadership
Attendees of the AAHKS First Annual Spring Meeting taking place this month will have the opportunity to get case-related questions answered in an informal setting with faculty and peers over breakfast. The meeting takes place March 31-April 2 in Washington, DC....
Feb 5, 2016 | AAHKS Business, AAHKS Leadership
Jay R. Lieberman, MD, AAHKS President, and Richard Iorio, MD, Health Policy Council Chair traveled to Baltimore this week to meet with CMS. Working with our advocacy firm Epstein Becker & Green, AAHKS leaders along with Executive Director, Michael J. Zarski, JD...
Jan 8, 2016 | AAHKS Business
AAHKS is seeking volunteers to work with the AAOS’s Evidence-Based Medicine Unit on a writing panel and a voting panel regarding six consensus statements related to the Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee (SMOAK) Guidelines. These guidelines were...
