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...
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,...
