Jun 6, 2019 | Advocacy, Legislation, Medicare
by Stephen M. Engstrom, MD 2018-2019 AAHKS Health Policy Fellow This week, AAHKS members and staff returned to Washington, D.C. as part of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference (NOLC) to meet with members of...
May 23, 2019 | Advocacy, CMS
AAHKS joined more than 70 state and specialty societies, as well as other interested parties, in writing to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma expressing support for a demonstration model that will be submitted to the...
Apr 11, 2019 | Advocacy, Legislation
AAHKS joined more than 65 health care groups in asking Congress to co-sponsor The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348, H.R. 1763). This bipartisan legislation would provide a responsible increase in Medicare support for graduate medical education...
Feb 27, 2019 | Advocacy, CMS
Representatives from AAHKS and AAOS met with CMS staff this week to discuss the previously reported Medicare Learning Network (MLN) newsletter, that was released in order to help clarify how the removal of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the inpatient only list...
Feb 14, 2019 | Advocacy, CMS
Despite AAHKS’s calls for clarity from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), there has been continued disorder regarding the removal of TKA from the Inpatient Only (IPO) List. Although CMS committed to suspending audits by Medicare Recovery Audit...
