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...
Jan 18, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined 128 other national and state medical societies in writing Congressional leaders “to quickly pass legislation to reverse the 3.37 percent Medicare physician payment cuts that took effect on January 1, 2024.” As further noted, “Physicians are the...
Jan 3, 2024 | AAHKS Amplified, Advocacy, CMS, Performance Measures
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: TuneIn | RSS | -In this episode of Amplified, Dr. Rana hosts Dr. Huddleston and Dr. Sterling to discuss the new mandatory Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee...
Dec 14, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Committees and Task Forces, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
The AAHKS Advocacy Committee and Health Policy Fellows have developed a primer to help members navigate utilizing the Principal Care Management (PCM) codes CMS has approved for use in capturing the pre-optimization work you may be doing to take care of your patients....
