Oct 31, 2014 | Medicare
Late on October 31, 2014, CMS released the final Medicare physician fee schedule for 2015. Notably for AAHKS members, CMS is holding the work relative values for total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty at the 2014 interim values. In other words, as AAHKS...
Oct 31, 2014 | Medicare
According to The Wall Street Journal, authorities are interviewing CMS officials and others after shares of Dendreon, Corp. fell 10% on June 7, 2010. The investigation centers around leaks made by a CMS official in an internal email to staff members. “The Securities...
Oct 10, 2014 | Medicare
TheHill.com is reporting that a record 2,610 hospitals in the United States will receive lower reimbursement levels in the next year because of the number of patients readmitted 30 days after treatment. The number increased by 433 because CMS added of a number of new...
Sep 12, 2014 | Medicare
According to Kaiser Health News, late August estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that Medicare and Medicaid will cost a combined $89 billion less over 10 years than the CBO previously projected. Medicare is expected to spend $49 billion less from 2015...
Sep 5, 2014 | Medicare
On behalf of AAHKS, President Brian S. Parsley, MD, submitted comments to CMS on the Proposed Physician Fee Schedule for 2015. Dr. Parsley urged no further reductions in fees for arthroplasty and that CMS proceed carefully in adopting any future expansion of the...
Aug 22, 2014 | Medicare
CMS has re-opened the Sunshine Act Portal in the physician open payments system on their website. The site had been down for two weeks while errors were corrected. About one-third of the data has been removed for viewing after CMS discovered erroneous information. The...
