Aug 16, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
CMS recently released the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule for the fiscal year 2025 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for acute and long-term care, which includes the Innovation Center’s Transforming Episode Accountability...
Aug 9, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
CMS released both the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (OPPS & ASC) proposed rules. CMS proposes a 2025 conversion factor, upon which all...
Jul 26, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
This week, AAHKS joined 125 specialty and state societies to write Congressional leadership, urging prioritization and advancement of several key bills and legislative proposals that provide greater fiscal stability for physicians and reform key elements of the...
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 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 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 –...
