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....
Dec 7, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will be implementing a mandatory inpatient PROM for THA and TKA next year. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to improve patient...
Dec 1, 2023 | Advocacy, Medicare, Reimbursement
On November 16, AAHKS joined 120 state and national health care societies in writing Congress urging them to avert all Medicare payment cuts for 2024. The letter states that the “combination of ever-increasing practice costs and long stagnated Medicare payment rates...
Nov 17, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will be implementing a mandatory inpatient PROM for THA and TKA next year. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to improve patient...
Nov 10, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
In the past two weeks, AAHKS has signed on to two letters to Congressional leaders, urging them to take action on payment cuts and Medicare budget reform. On October 31, AAHKS joined AMA and more than 110 other national and state societies asking for legislation to...
Nov 4, 2023 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, Annual Meeting, CMS, Reimbursement
To continue the momentum from Arthroplasty Unity Day, yesterday’s advocacy event in conjunction with the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, we’re asking all AAHKS members to urge Congress to pass H.R. 2474, the Strengthening Medicare Patients and Providers Act, by...
