Apr 9, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
Following our letter last week to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, leadership was meet with HHS Deputy Secretary via conference call. The call included a briefing to the officials on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected...
Apr 9, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS joined AAOS and 40 other specialty and state societies in writing to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the White House Coronavirus Taskforce regarding access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and essential medical equipment, guidance for emergency surgery...
Apr 2, 2020 | Advocacy, COVID-19
AAHKS and AAOS sent a joint letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan expressing our support for the Administration in their decision to delay elective procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in the letter was a request to...
Mar 12, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS
On March 2, 2020, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Democratic state attorneys general challenging a lower court ruling that legislative changes to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual mandate rendered the entire law unconstitutional. In 2017, 20...
