Sep 16, 2022 | Advocacy, Membership, Surveys
As part of our ongoing commitment to health policy advocacy, the AAHKS Advocacy Committee invites you to participate in a brief poll. The goals of this poll are to better identify the most pressing health policy issues affecting the AAHKS community and guide the...
Sep 9, 2022 | Advocacy, Medicare
Last week, AAHKS submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its Request for Information (RFI) on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. Our comments focused on issues around prior authorization, which were informed by our March...
Sep 9, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week AAHKS submitted our comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CY2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. AAHKS comments include a call for CMS to join physician associations in calling on Congress for reform of the...
Sep 9, 2022 | Advocacy, Fellowships
Don’t miss the deadline to submit an application for the 2023-2024 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship on Friday, September 30. The program, which runs on the calendar year, is open to orthopaedic surgeons in the United States currently participating in a Joint/Adult...
Aug 26, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS
This week, AAHKS President Bryan D. Springer, MD, Second Vice President James I. Huddleston, III, MD and Health Policy Council and Advocacy Committee Chair Adam J. Rana, MD, met with Chris Ritter, MPA, PhD, Acting Deputy Director of the CMS Center for Medicare and...
Aug 26, 2022 | Advocacy, Webinars, Women in Arthroplasty, Young Arthroplasty Group
The AAHKS Women in Arthroplasty (WIA) and Young Arthroplasty Group (YAG) Committees are partnering with the Advocacy Committee in September to present a two-part webinar on the basics and importance of advocacy in arthroplasty. On Thursday, September 8, 2022, 8:30...
