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...
Oct 6, 2023 | Guidelines, Patient Outcomes, Practice Management, Publications
The full “Optimal Timing of Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty” guideline, jointly developed by AAHKS and the American College of Rheumatology, has been published in the JOA and in the ACR journal. The jointly developed guideline, a summary of which was released in March...
Sep 22, 2023 | Patient Outcomes, The Augment Podcast
In this episode Augment hosts Jenna A. Bernstein, MD and Jesse Wolfstadt, MD, MSc, FRCSC are joined by Christopher Kim, MD, PhD and Sowmya Viswanathan, PhD to discuss the future of regenerative medicine for knee osteoarthritis. Topics include the current state of...
Sep 8, 2023 | AAHKS Amplified, Patient Outcomes
In this episode of AAHKS Amplified, Patient and Public Relations Committee members Kevin A. Sonn, MD, Cody C. Green, MD and David M. Freccero, MD were joined by patient Jason Couch to discuss his personal journey leading up to and following knee replacement surgery....
