Sep 27, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
This week, AAHKS representatives participated in the National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference (NOLC) in Washington, DC. As part of the conference, leaders met with more than a dozen Congressional offices to discuss support for inflation updates to physician...
Sep 20, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Practice Management
Last week, AAHKS joined 85 national and state medical societies to write Congress in support of House Resolution 9001, the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act. This bill would create critical physician hospital ownership exemptions for communities that...
Sep 20, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Fellowships
Submit your application for the 2025–2026 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship by Monday, 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 Fellowship, or...
Sep 6, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, Annual Meeting, CME
Kevin B. Fricka, MD, invites you to attend the 2024 AAHKS Annual Meeting held in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 7-10 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center. Dr. Fricka is the moderator of Symposium III, “Patient Preoperative Optimization: How to Do It and How to Be...
Aug 23, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, The Augment Podcast, Wellness
In this “Legends of Arthroplasty” episode of the Augment, hosts Jenna A. Bernstein, MD and Peter A. Gold, MD are joined by AAHKS Past President Thomas P. Vail, MD to discuss how an engineering background led him to arthroplasty and arthritis research, what the future...
Aug 9, 2024 | AAHKS Leadership, Diversity, Patient Outcomes, Research
Arthroplasty Today is partnering with industry on a special edition devoted to health equity research in adult hip and knee reconstruction. Health disparities like higher risks, complications and poorer outcomes disproportionately affect Black, Hispanic and other...
