Oct 27, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Medicare, Reimbursement
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) are organizing a letter calling on Senate leadership to stop Medicare cuts to providers. The second half of their letter specifically addresses the pending 4.42% reduction to the Physician Fee Schedule...
Oct 6, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
Last week AAHKS submitted input to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Development of a Hospital-Level 90-Day Risk-Standardized Complication Rate (RSCR) Following Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)...
Sep 30, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
Last week AAHKS joined the American Medical Association (AMA) and 122 other national specialty and state medical societies in calling on Congressional leadership to work with the physician community to address the “deeply alarm[ing]…mounting financial instability of...
Sep 16, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
This week, AAHKS submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule for calendar year 2023. The comments included support for proposed increases to the weights of...
Sep 9, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week AAHKS submitted our comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CY2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. AAHKS comments include a call for CMS to join physician associations in calling on Congress for reform of the...
Aug 26, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS
This week, AAHKS President Bryan D. Springer, MD, Second Vice President James I. Huddleston, III, MD and Health Policy Council and Advocacy Committee Chair Adam J. Rana, MD, met with Chris Ritter, MPA, PhD, Acting Deputy Director of the CMS Center for Medicare and...
