Invitation – Dr. Roger Marshall Virtual Event

Jun 18, 2020 | Advocacy

Fellow physician and Congressman Roger Marshall, MD currently serves in the 1st Congressional District of Kansas. As a physician and leader for hip and knee surgeons, we wanted to provide a unique opportunity to support one of our own and put more doctors in the U.S....

AAHKS Signs on to Provider Protection Bill Letter

Jun 11, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19

AAHKS joined the American Medical Association and more than 130 other specialty and state medical societies in writing to U.S. House and U.S. Senate leaders expressing our support for the bipartisan H.R. 7059 bill, the “Coronavirus Provider Protection Act,” which...

HHS to Distribute Additional Provider Relief Funds

Jun 11, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that it is distributing additional funds from the Provider Relief Fund through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Funds will be made available to eligible Medicaid and...

AAHKS Representatives Attend Virtual BOS Meeting

Jun 4, 2020 | Advocacy

The AAOS National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference (NOLC) was supposed to be held this week in Washington, DC, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference has gone virtual. AAHKS Third Vice President David A. Halsey, MD and AAHKS Board of Orthopaedic Specialties...

CMS Releases IPPS Proposed Rule

May 28, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS

On May 11, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that updates payment policies, payment rates and quality provisions for service furnished under the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for acute and...