May 19, 2023 | Advocacy, Practice Management, Reimbursement, Surveys
The AAHKS Practice Management Committee is conducting a survey to assess differences in billing patterns for adult reconstruction surgeons. The recent change in office E/M coding guidelines has led to widely varying approaches to how to bill standard office visits. We...
May 5, 2023 | Practice Management, Reimbursement, Surveys
The AAHKS Practice Management Committee is conducting a survey to assess differences in billing patterns for adult reconstruction surgeons. The recent change in office E/M coding guidelines has led to widely varying approaches to how to bill standard office visits. We...
Apr 21, 2023 | Advocacy, Reimbursement, The Cut Podcast
In this episode of The Cut, podcast hosts Peter A. Gold, MD, Meghan A. Whitmarsh-Brown, MD and Kim K. Tucker, MD are joined by Adam J. Rana, MD and P. Maxwell Courtney, MD, the Chair and Vice Chair of the AAHKS Advocacy Committee. Hospital Readmissions After Total...
Feb 16, 2023 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
AAHKS President Bryan D. Springer, MD and Health Policy Chair Adam J. Rana, MD traveled to Washington DC this week to meet with House and Senate members and staff, as well as CMS staff to discussion Congressional priorities for 118th Congress and the Administration...
Feb 2, 2023 | Advocacy, Practice Management, Reimbursement
AAHKS has worked with CMS and the AMA RUC for years to recognize the pre-optimization work and practice changes physicians undertake for better patient care. Late last year, the AMA CPT Assistant provided details on how arthroplasty surgeons may use principal care...
Jan 26, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined nearly 100 health care professional societies in writing to Congress about the broken Medicare payment system. The signatories urge Congress to work with the physician community to make long-term reform to Medicare payment models, including the...
