Mar 29, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Performance Measures, Reimbursement
Next week, CMS is implementing a mandatory Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee Replacement PROMs Performance Measure (IQR THA/TKA PRO-PM) for THA and TKA. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated PROMs to...
Mar 14, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Medicare, Reimbursement
On March 8, Congress passed a suite of health policies in a federal funding package that averted a partial government shutdown. Included in those policies were several critical Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for which AAHKS has been advocating. As a preface to...
Mar 8, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, In the News, Medicare
Earlier this year, CMS released the Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes final rule to address certain operational and technical aspects of prior authorization for “Impacted Payers” across Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid,...
Mar 8, 2024 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Surveys
AAHKS’s advocacy partner, Epstein Becker & Green PC, has developed a 50 State Non-Compete Survey, which includes a health care–specific supplement. The survey provides a state-by-state summary of the applicable exclusions/restrictions for health care...
Feb 23, 2024 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures, Practice Management, Reimbursement
In less than two months, CMS is implementing a mandatory Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee Replacement PROMs Performance Measure (IQR THA/TKA PRO-PM) for THA and TKA. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Legislation
Last week AAHKS joined more than a dozen other national medical societies to write the Congressional leadership of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding Section 5 of the “Health Care PRICE Transparency Act 2.0,” (S.3548) which...