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OrthoPAC: Potential Regulatory Changes Coming to your Practice

Aug 29, 2019 | Advocacy, Young Arthroplasty Group

By Chad A. Krueger, MD, Member, Young Arthroplasty Group Committee and Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA, Member, Young Arthroplasty Group Committee If there is ever a time to consider the importance of donating to the Orthopaedic Political Action Committee (OrthoPAC), it...

Call for 2020-2021 Health Policy Fellows

Aug 8, 2019 | Advocacy, Fellowships, Residents

by Nicholas B. Frisch, MD Healthcare delivery continues to evolve, and as orthopaedic surgeons, our traditional education does little to prepare us for understanding the complexity of change in our healthcare system. The AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship (HPF) presents a...

AAOS Seeking Action on Surprise Billing

Jul 11, 2019 | Advocacy

AAOS is seeking support on grass roots action to “to find a common sense solution to surprise billing.” On Thursday the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee reported out the No Surprises Act, which benchmarks out-of-network payments to median in-network...

AAHKS Returns to Capitol for AAOS NOLC

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...

AAHKS Supports Physician-Owned Hospital Model

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...

AAHKS Supports Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act

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...