Apr 16, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS joins the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and nearly 60 specialty, state and other health care groups in requesting Congressional leadership include the following in a fourth COVID-19 relief package: Direct the Department of Health and Human Services...
Apr 16, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS joins the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Medical Association and more than 135 specialty and state societies in writing to Congressional leaders seeking to provide guidance on important health care provider issues for an expected...
Apr 9, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
Following our letter last week to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, leadership was meet with HHS Deputy Secretary via conference call. The call included a briefing to the officials on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected...
Apr 9, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS joined AAOS and 40 other specialty and state societies in writing to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the White House Coronavirus Taskforce regarding access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and essential medical equipment, guidance for emergency surgery...
Apr 2, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS and AAOS sent a joint letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan expressing our support for the Administration in their decision to delay elective procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in the letter was a request to...
Mar 12, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS
On March 2, 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Democratic state attorneys general challenging a lower court ruling that legislative changes to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual mandate rendered the entire law unconstitutional. In 2017, 20...
