Nov 14, 2021 | Advocacy, Annual Meeting, CMS
Following the AAHKS Business Meeting, two AOA Health Policy Fellows presented their reports. In remarks to Annual Meeting attendees, Justin T. Deen, MD, addressed “Perioperative Pain Management During the Pandemic,” discussing unique patient management challenges...
Oct 28, 2021 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has invited AAHKS members to review the Clinician-Level and Clinician Group-Level Total Hip Arthroplasty and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty (THA and TKA) Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Performance Measure (PRO-PM), as AAHKS...
Sep 23, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
On July 19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare CY 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and ASC Payment System Proposed Rule. AAHKS comments included support for hospital-level Risk-Standardized Patient...
Sep 23, 2021 | CMS, In the News
Healio published a point-counterpoint article on August 16 asking the question, “Will moving orthopedic procedures to freestanding facilities impact health care economics?” Two orthopaedic physicians highlight different viewpoints: one calls it a “rare win” from the...
Sep 16, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule. AAHKS has submitted a comment letter on the Proposed Rule, asking CMS to explain how or why it uses different standards to derive work RVU...
Sep 9, 2021 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for public comment. The proposal includes a recommendation to allow the expiry of an increase to the RVU Conversion Factor, which was implemented by...
