Sep 16, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule. AAHKS has submitted a comment letter on the Proposed Rule, asking CMS to explain how or why it uses different standards to derive work RVU...
Sep 16, 2021 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Fellowships
The deadline to submit an application for the 2022-2023 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship is approaching on Friday, October 1. The program, which runs on the calendar year, is open to orthopaedic surgeons in the United States currently participating in a Joint/Adult...
Sep 9, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for public comment. The proposal includes a recommendation to allow the expiry of an increase to the RVU Conversion Factor, which was implemented by...
Jul 29, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This month the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released both the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule and the CY 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (OPPS...
Jul 8, 2021 | Advocacy, Membership
On June 13, William C. Oldaker, founding partner of Oldaker & Willison passed away. Oldaker & Willison, through our partnership with National Health Advisors, represents AAHKS on Capitol Hill. AAHKS leaders spent countless hours with Mr. Oldaker and his team...
Jul 8, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
Last week, AAHKS submitted our comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on their CY2022 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule. Our comments included support for adjusting Hospital-Level 30-Day, All-Cause Risk-Standardized...
