Mar 15, 2024 | AAHKS Amplified, Annual Meeting, Digital Health, Patient Outcomes
At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, Digital Health and Social Media Committee Chair Shaun P. Patel, MD and Vice Chair Dustin J. Schuett, DO talked to Joshua C. Rozell, MD about his research, presented at the podium, regarding the additional surgeon stress for surgeries...
Mar 8, 2024 | CME, Education, Patient Outcomes, Spring Meeting
Symposium topics for the 2024 AAHKS Spring Meeting have been announced, covering leading-edge techniques in revision, current controversies in joint arthroplasty, orthopaedic value-based care and much more. Hear a fresh perspective on hip and knee replacement at the...
Feb 23, 2024 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures, Practice Management, Reimbursement
In less than two months, CMS is implementing a mandatory Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee Replacement PROMs Performance Measure (IQR THA/TKA PRO-PM) for THA and TKA. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated...
Feb 2, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Practice Management, Reimbursement
After CMS devalued TJA reimbursement in 2019, AAHKS worked diligently with CMS and the RUC to determine how to capture and pay for pre-optimization work by orthopaedic surgeons. In late 2022 CMS approved including knee and hip osteoarthritis pre-optimization work...
Dec 7, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will be implementing a mandatory inpatient PROM for THA and TKA next year. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to improve patient...
Nov 17, 2023 | Advocacy, CMS, Patient Outcomes, Performance Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will be implementing a mandatory inpatient PROM for THA and TKA next year. The goal of this measure is to quantify pain and functional improvements with validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to improve patient...
