Jul 4, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both passed their Reconciliation Bill that includes a Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) conversion factor (CF) increase of 2.5% for all physicians for 2026. The bill now heads to the President’s desk, where...
Jun 27, 2025 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz met with insurance industry leaders to discuss their pledge to ease the burden of prior authorization, which...
Jun 20, 2025 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines, Position Papers
AAHKS has developed a library of position statements as expressions of the association’s views on important subjects in arthroplasty, such as opioid use for the treatment of osteoarthritis, CDC guidelines on the use of antibiotics and removal of TKA from CMS’s...
May 23, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a reconciliation bill that includes some health care provisions, including a potential MEI update for physicians for 2026. The American Medical Association has issued a statement on the bill, saying “The AMA...
Apr 25, 2025 | Federal Guidelines, The Augment Podcast
David S. Jevsevar, MD, MBA, Past Chair of the AAHKS Evidence-Based Medicine Committee and CEO of OrthoVirginia, joins hosts Jenna A. Bernstein, MD and David C. Landy, MD, PhD in the newest Augment podcast episode. They discuss Dr. Jevsevar’s journey from small private...
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...
