Aug 18, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Fellowships
The deadline to submit an application for the 2023-2024 AAHKS Health Policy Fellowship is Friday, September 30. The program, which runs on the calendar year, is open to orthopaedic surgeons in the United States currently participating in a Joint/Adult Reconstruction...
Aug 5, 2022 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
On July 15, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule including the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. Included in the proposed rule is an increase to...
Apr 22, 2022 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines
This week AAHKS joined the Arthritis Foundation and other medical and public organizations in writing to the Congressional Senate and House Subcommittees on Labor, HHS, Education, Committee on Appropriations, urging them to provide funding for the Centers for Disease...
Apr 1, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
Last week, AAHKS submitted comments to the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) on its Request for Information (RFI) on “Electronic Prior Authorization Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification.” Thank you to our members who...
Apr 1, 2022 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
AAHKS is still seeking input from Fellow and Candidate members about the challenges and problems you are facing with Prior Authorization to inform ongoing advocacy efforts and share provider input with Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services....
Feb 24, 2022 | Federal Guidelines, In the News
A reporter from Modern Healthcare interviewed Adam Rana, MD, AAHKS Advocacy Committee Chair, regarding the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) payment model, which attempts to achieve cost savings by bundling payment for joint replacement. Specifically,...
