AAHKS Comments on CMS Proposal to Revalue THA and TKA Codes

CMS recently released the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule and identified seven high volume current procedural terminology (CPT) codes as potentially misvalued, among which were 27130 (total hip arthroplasty) and 27447 (total knee arthroplasty). CMS...

Seema Verma to Open Physician Fee Schedule Call

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a call on Monday, November 19 from 2:00 -3:30 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss key topics of the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule final rule. CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, will provide opening remarks on the...

HHS Report Finds Medicare Advantage Patients Disadvantaged

The New York Times reported this week that Medicare Advantage plans “have been improperly denying many medical claims to patients and physicians alike.” A report by the US Department of Health and Human Services claims the denials are an attempt to increase profits....

CMS MIPS Field Testing Commences

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractor, Acumen, LLC, will conduct field testing in October 2018 for 13 cost measures before consideration of their potential use in the cost performance category of the Merit-based Incentive Payment...
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