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 –...
Mar 29, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Performance Measures, Reimbursement
Next week, CMS is implementing a mandatory Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee Replacement PROMs Performance Measure (IQR THA/TKA PRO-PM) for THA and TKA. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated PROMs to...
Mar 14, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Medicare, Reimbursement
On March 8, Congress passed a suite of health policies in a federal funding package that averted a partial government shutdown. Included in those policies were several critical Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for which AAHKS has been advocating. As a preface to...
