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...
Nov 4, 2023 | AJRR, In the News, Practice Management
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR), the official registry of AAHKS, published its 2023 Annual Report on hip and knee arthroplasty procedural trends and patient outcomes today. Marking the 10th anniversary...
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 1, 2023 | Practice Management, The Augment Podcast, Young Arthroplasty Group Podcast
In this episode, Augment hosts Jenna A. Bernstein, MD, Anna R. Cohen-Rosenblum, MD, MSc and Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA are joined by AAOS Committee on Professionalism Chair Thomas B. Fleeter, MD to discuss what is involved with being an expert witness in the medical...
Jul 18, 2023 | AAHKS Amplified, Arthroplasty Topics Podcast, Practice Management, The Augment Podcast, Young Arthroplasty Group, Young Arthroplasty Group Podcast
Podcast (yag): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | RSS | MoreIn this episode the Augment hosts are joined by AAHKS Advocacy Committee member Stephen M. Engstrom, MD, MBA and AAHKS Health Policy Fellow Christopher Skeehan, MD to discuss the use of...
