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When Will Patients Receive New Medicare Cards?

Feb 1, 2018 | CMS

CMS announced that they will soon begin mailing new Medicare cards that replace Social Security numbers with unique Medicare Numbers. The first wave of new cards will begin arriving in April. CMS will continue the mailings be geographic region through June. CMS...

CMS Announces New “BPCI Advanced” Episode Payment Model

Jan 12, 2018 | CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced), a new voluntary episode payment model that will test a new iteration of bundled payments for 32 Clinical Episodes (29 inpatient and 3...

AAHKS and AAOS Leaders Spend the Day with CMS, on Capitol Hill

Dec 15, 2017 | Advocacy, CMS

Richard Iorio, MD, Chair, AAHKS Health Policy Council, was in Washington, DC on Monday for meetings with CMS and CMMI staff. Dr. Iorio was joined by AAHKS and AAOS staff in discussions about the TJA bundled payment projects and the need to improve them through risk...

CMS Final Rule Alters CJR Participation and Cancels Mandatory Episode Payment Models

Dec 1, 2017 | CMS

On November 30, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule, “Cancellation of Advancing Care Coordination through Episode Payment and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Models; Changes to Comprehensive Care for Joint...

AAHKS Interprets “Two-Midnight Rule” for TKA

Dec 1, 2017 | CMS

Following the announcement that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is being removed from the inpatient only list in the most recent CMS CY18 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems (HOPPS) rule, AAHKS and our regulatory firm...

AAHKS Comments on MACRA Episode-Based Cost Measures Field Testing for TKA Draft Measure

Dec 1, 2017 | Advocacy, CMS

AAHKS and The Knee Society submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Acumen, LLC regarding its MACRA Episode-Based Cost Measures Field Testing. Comments involved both the TKA draft cost measure itself and what information it...

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