Apr 11, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
Last week AAHKS joined our orthopaedic colleagues in writing to Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). First, we urged Congressional leadership to address Medicare Physician Payment reform, after the failure to do so at the end of 2024 and again at the...
Feb 28, 2025 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Thirty AAHKS leaders convened in Washington, D.C. this week for the AAHKS Legislative Retreat, a two-day advocacy action event focused on maintaining patient access to hip and knee care, health care consolidation issues and advocacy planning for the new...
Feb 21, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Please take a few minutes to urge your Congressional Representative to co-sponsor new legislation to replace Medicare payment cuts with a 2% increase. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have introduced the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025”, which...
Feb 14, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined 130 other national and state medical societies in writing to urge Congress to include in the forthcoming March 2025 appropriations bill, provisions that both reverse the latest round of Medicare payment cuts and provide physicians with a...
Nov 15, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Thank you to those who have already taken the time to write their Congressional Representatives. If you have not already done so, please click here to write your Representative today to ask them to support the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act”...
Nov 9, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
As we reported earlier this week, Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and six of their Congressional colleagues introduced the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act” (H.R. 10073). This bipartisan legislation seeks to...
