Feb 11, 2022 | Co-Branded Meetings, Federal Guidelines, Practice Management
Practicing physicians encounter a wide variety of contracts for payment for their services. The AMA held a virtual mini-bootcamp on December 1, 2021, covering both introductory and advanced contracting topics important for physicians to know. The introductory portion...
Feb 4, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
On behalf of our 4600 members, AAHKS thanks Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT), Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) for introducing the Small Practice, Underserved, and Rural Support Program Extension Act of...
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...
