We Need Your TKA Input on Quality Audits

Jan 25, 2019 | Advocacy, CMS

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) removed total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the inpatient-only list, it committed to suspending audits by Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) for two years. The suspension was to serve as a grace period...

Provide Input to AAHKS Survey on Medicare Reimbursement

Dec 20, 2018 | Advocacy, CMS

As you know, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently identified current procedural terminology (CPT) codes 27130 (total hip arthroplasty) and 27447 (total knee arthroplasty) as potentially misvalued in the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule...

Support Your PAC

Dec 6, 2018 | Advocacy

by David A. Halsey, MD, AAOS President As you know, in the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, CMS identified several potentially current procedural terminology (CPT) codes as “misvalued”, including 27130 (total hip arthroplasty) and 27447 (total knee...

CMS Surveys High Volume Medicare Participants on THA

Nov 15, 2018 | Advocacy

AAHKS members may have received an email from Kathy Bryant, Senior Technical Advisor, Hospital and Ambulatory Payment Group, and accompanying letter from Carol Blackford, Director, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...