Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Practice Management, Reimbursement
After CMS devalued TJA reimbursement in 2019, AAHKS worked diligently with CMS and the RUC to determine how to capture and pay for pre-optimization work by orthopaedic surgeons. In late 2022 CMS approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work...
Jan 18, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined 128 other national and state medical societies in writing Congressional leaders “to quickly pass legislation to reverse the 3.37 percent Medicare physician payment cuts that took effect on January 1, 2024.” As further noted, “Physicians are the...
Jan 12, 2024 | CME, CMS, Reimbursement, Webinars
Getting Reimbursed for TJA Pre-Optimization Work with Principal Care Management Code Tuesday, January 30, 2024 5:00 p.m. Pacific | 7:00 p.m. Central | 8:00 p.m. Eastern The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved the inclusion of...
Jan 5, 2024 | AAHKS Amplified, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
As previously reported, 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 this year. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with...
Dec 14, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Committees and Task Forces, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
The AAHKS Advocacy Committee and Health Policy Fellows have developed a primer to help members navigate utilizing the Principal Care Management (PCM) codes CMS has approved for use in capturing the pre-optimization work you may be doing to take care of your patients....
Dec 1, 2023 | Advocacy, Medicare, Reimbursement
On November 16, AAHKS joined 120 state and national health care societies in writing Congress urging them to avert all Medicare payment cuts for 2024. The letter states that the “combination of ever-increasing practice costs and long stagnated Medicare payment rates...
