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...
Jun 24, 2021 | Advocacy, Webinars, Women in Arthroplasty
“Advocacy 101” Wednesday, July 14, 2021 5:30 PM Pacific | 6:30 PM Mountain | 7:30 PM Central | 8:30 PM Eastern Every day, lawmakers in Washington, D.C. make decisions that perceptibly impact the delivery of patient care in the U.S. health system, often creating...
May 27, 2021 | Advocacy, Committees and Task Forces
Members of the Advocacy Committee and other AAHKS members joined the AAOS in their Virtual Hill Day, meeting with more than 250 Congressional representatives to seek support for Prior Authorization relief, continued improvement of utilization for telehealth and mental...
Apr 29, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
This week, AAHKS joined more than 60 other health care organizations in urging Congressional leadership to provide an additional $3 billion for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), “to once again mitigate expected reductions to the Medicare conversion factor,...
Mar 25, 2021 | Advocacy, Patient Outcomes
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is seeking participants for its Patient Advocacy Program. The program is designed to capture patient stories on key policy issues impacting the musculoskeletal community to support AAOS efforts on Capitol Hill. Did...
