Oct 27, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Medicare, Reimbursement
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) are organizing a letter calling on Senate leadership to stop Medicare cuts to providers. The second half of their letter specifically addresses the pending 4.42% reduction to the Physician Fee Schedule...
Sep 30, 2022 | AAHKS Leadership, Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
Last week AAHKS joined the American Medical Association (AMA) and 122 other national specialty and state medical societies in calling on Congressional leadership to work with the physician community to address the “deeply alarm[ing]…mounting financial instability of...
Sep 16, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Medicare
This week, AAHKS submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule for calendar year 2023. The comments included support for proposed increases to the weights of...
Sep 9, 2022 | Advocacy, Medicare
Last week, AAHKS submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its Request for Information (RFI) on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. Our comments focused on issues around prior authorization, which were informed by our March...
Jul 7, 2022 | Advocacy, CMS, Legislation, Medicare
This week the CMS Innovation Center released a report, “CMS Innovation Center Tackles Implicit Bias,” which assessed three CMMI payment models, including the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model. AAHKS advocacy partner Epstein Becker Green summarized the...
Dec 10, 2021 | COVID-19, Medicare
The AMA recently released a report detailing the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medicare spending on physicians. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates that spending for all physician services in Medicare fell 40% between January and April 2020, and rose...
