Jul 12, 2024 | Annual Meeting, Practice Management, Reimbursement
Join your colleagues in arthroplasty at the 2024 AAHKS Annual Meeting for expert hip and knee case discussions, more than 60 original research presentations, 300+ posters and eight cutting-edge symposia, including the newly announced “Patient Preoperative Optimization...
Jun 21, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
Thank you to all members who have written to Congress and, if you have not already done so, please write your Senators and Representative today and ask them to support the “Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2024” (S. 4518/H.R. 8702)....
Jun 14, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
This week, AAHKS submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on their 2025 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule, including the proposed Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) episode of care...
May 31, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week AAHKS submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Request for Information (RFI) on Medicare Advantage Data, specifically to respond to the RFI’s solicitation of comments regarding data related to prior authorization (PA) in...
May 10, 2024 | CME, Reimbursement, Webinars
“Coding It Right in the Office: Getting Paid for What You Do” May 28, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. Central Evaluation and management (E/M) coding was updated in 2021 and conversion factor changes have increased the value of office-based care. Don’t leave dollars on the table –...
Apr 26, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS
Last week AAHKS joined more than a dozen national specialty societies in writing to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to oppose their intent to develop and implement a prior authorization demonstration for certain ambulatory surgical center (ASC)...