Dec 7, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
Thank you to the hundreds of AAHKS members who have already written to their Congressional Representative in support of H.R. 6020, “Supporting Medicare Providers Act of 2021”. If you have not yet done so, please click here to tell Congress to take action to stop...
Oct 28, 2021 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has invited AAHKS members to review the Clinician-Level and Clinician Group-Level Total Hip Arthroplasty and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty (THA and TKA) Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Performance Measure (PRO-PM), as AAHKS...
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...
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...
May 20, 2021 | Bundled Payments, CMS, Federal Guidelines
AAHKS and AAOS have published an article addressing billing for the presurgical period that has developed in the evolving model of care related to patient optimization. As the article states, “many of the steps now required for presurgical decision making and patient...
May 6, 2021 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
CMS last week released the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Final Rule, which extends the model for an additional three performance years, through December 2024. CMS previously issued a proposed rule on the CJR Model on February 24, 2020, and...
