Sep 23, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
On July 19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare CY 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and ASC Payment System Proposed Rule. AAHKS comments included support for hospital-level Risk-Standardized Patient...
Sep 23, 2021 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy
AAHKS would like to congratulate P. Maxwell Courtney, MD, AAHKS Advocacy Committee Vice Chair, on his election as an At-Large member to the Orthopaedic PAC’s Executive Committee, representing the PAC Adviser’s Circle. AAHKS has been a member of the Ortho PAC Advisor’s...
Sep 16, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule. AAHKS has submitted a comment letter on the Proposed Rule, asking CMS to explain how or why it uses different standards to derive work RVU...
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...
Sep 9, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for public comment. The proposal includes a recommendation to allow the expiry of an increase to the RVU Conversion Factor, which was implemented by...
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...
