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 workers. ...
Feb 23, 2024 | Advocacy, Bundled Payments, Reimbursement
CMS recently approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work under principal care management (PCM) codes. Watch the recent AAHKS webinar to learn how you and your staff can use PCM codes to document pre-opt care and regain value within TJA...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Practice Management, Reimbursement
After CMS devalued TJA reimbursement in 2019, AAHKS worked diligently with CMS and the RUC to determine how to capture and pay for pre-optimization work by orthopaedic surgeons. In late 2022 CMS approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, AJRR, Committees and Task Forces, Young Arthroplasty Group, Young Arthroplasty Group Podcast
In this episode of The Augment, AAOS President Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA, joins Young Arthroplasty Group (YAG) hosts Jesse Wolfstadt, MD, MSc, FRCSC and Jenna A. Bernstein, MD to examine value-based care and the program of longitudinal care he developed at the...
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...
