CMS | AAHKS - Part 32

AAHKS Comments on CMS OPPS Proposed Rule, Meets with Legislators

Sep 28, 2018 | Advocacy, CMS

AAHKS has commented on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s (CMS) CY 2019 hospital outpatient prospective payment system proposed rule. Our comments focused on the continued impact our members and your patients are experiencing regarding the removal of TKA from...

CMS Field Testing Elective Primary Hip Arthroplasty MIPS Cost Measure

Sep 28, 2018 | CMS

Starting in October of 2018, CMS will conduct field testing of cost measures including one for elective primary hip arthroplasty. The measures could be used in Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) starting in 2020. The hip measure was developed with...

AAHKS Conducts Round of Senate Hill Visits

Sep 14, 2018 | Advocacy, CMS

As Hurricane Florence bore down on the East Coast, former Health Policy Fellow and AAHKS Advocacy Committee member P. Maxwell Courtney, MD made the rounds on Capitol Hill Thursday. Accompanied by AAHKS lobbyists, the offices of 10 Senators from both sides of the aisle...

AAHKS Submits Physican Fee Schedule and QPP Comment Letter to CMS

Sep 14, 2018 | CMS, Medicare

This week AAHKS submitted comments to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on their proposed rule “Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for FY 2019; Quality Payment Program; and Medicaid Promoting...

AAHKS Signs on to AMA Letter to CMS Administrator Verma

Aug 31, 2018 | CMS

AAHKS, along with more than 150 other medical specialty and state societies, signed on to a letter to the CMS Administrator Seema Verma to thank CMS for continued dialogue related to reducing administrative burdens, particularly through their “Patients Over Paperwork”...

Special Advocacy Update: AAHKS Action in Washington, DC

Aug 17, 2018 | Advocacy, CMS, Legislation

Red Tape Relief Report The House Committee on Ways and Means released a report this week on their Red Tape Relief project, which was created to “modernize and improve the Medicare program for American seniors and the providers that serve them.” The report comes a year...