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CMS Issues Final Rule for Pilot Payment Model

Nov 20, 2015 | Advocacy, Legislation, Medicare

On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program (CJR). Seven changes were published with the final rule including a new start date of April 1, 2016, and a reduction of the...

AAHKS Replies to CMS RFI for new CMS Payment Systems

Nov 20, 2015 | AAHKS Business, Advocacy, Legislation, Medicare

AAHKS Executive Director, Michael J. Zarski, JD filed a letter commenting on CMS’s Request for Information regarding development of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) under the new Medicare Access and CHIP...

CMS Reports Fraction of ICD-10 Claims Rejected

Nov 6, 2015 | Medicare, Practice Management

Healthcare Finance News reports that of the 10 percent of claims filed under ICD-10, only a fraction have been rejected by CMS due to coding errors. Rejections were DUE to incorrectly submitted ICD-9 codes and incomplete or incorrect information. The article points...

Follow Up to JOA Bundled Payment Report

Oct 23, 2015 | Medicare

HealthLeaders Media featured a follow up story to a report published in The Journal of Arthroplasty last January. One of the report’s authors, Stephen J. Zabinski, MD, was interviewed for the article that looks at Medicare’s new mandatory bundled payment program and...

CMS Hosting MACRA Request for Information Webinars

Oct 9, 2015 | Medicare

CMS will be hosting a series of webinars about the Request for Information for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). During these webinars, MACRA Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) will also be...

Report Issued Following PRO Summit

Sep 25, 2015 | Medicare

AAHKS has released a detailed report of the AAHKS Quality and Patient Safety Summit on Total Joint Arthroplasty that it hosted in Baltimore on August 31, 2015. The report details the recommendations made by the attendees to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...