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AAHKS Signs on to COVID-19 Letters to Vice President and HHS Secretary

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...

AAHKS Letter to HHS Details COVID-19 Impact on Surgeons

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...

EBG Brief: Supreme Court to Review ACA Again

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...

Orthopaedic PAC Endorses Total Joint Surgeon for Congress

Mar 12, 2020 | Advocacy

The Political Action Committee of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (the Orthopaedic PAC) has formally endorsed fellow AAOS/AAHKS member Knute Buehler, MD, for Congress in Oregon’s Second Congressional District. Dr. Buehler practices hip and knee...

AAHKS Leaders Advocating for Joint Surgeons

Feb 27, 2020 | Advocacy

More than 40 AAHKS leaders convened in our nation’s capital this week, along with representatives from AAOS, The Hip Society and The Knee Society, to meet with more than 50 Congressional offices and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They...

Reminder to Complete 2020 TJA IPO Removal Poll

Feb 20, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS

AAHKS members in current practice should have received a request from AAHKS to complete a new poll regarding consequences of the 2018 removal of total knee arthroplasty and the 2020 removal of total hip arthroplasty from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...