Aug 18, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Fellowships
The deadline to submit an application for the 2023-2024 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship is Friday, September 30. The program, which runs on the calendar year, is open to orthopaedic surgeons in the United States currently participating in a Joint/Adult Reconstruction...
Aug 5, 2022 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
On July 15, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule including the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. Included in the proposed rule is an increase to...
Jul 15, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS
On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule. Read our full summary here. CMS proposes to decrease the PFS conversion factor by $1.53 to $33.08 due to statutory...
Jul 7, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Legislation, Medicare
This week the CMS Innovation Center released a report, “CMS Innovation Center Tackles Implicit Bias,” which assessed three CMMI payment models, including the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model. AAHKS advocacy partner Epstein Becker Green summarized the...
Jun 23, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS
AAHKS submitted our comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on their CY2023 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule. Our comments included expressing concern about the rising Medicare payment for DRGs while surgeon payment...
Jun 3, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS
At the request of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), AAHKS, joined by AAOS, provided comments on maintenance of total hip and total knee arthroplasty electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs)...
