AAHKS Signs on to CMS Letter for E/M Surgical Codes

Apr 2, 2020 | CMS

AAHKS joined more than 35 other state and specialty societies in signing on to an AAOS letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma this week. The letter expresses concern that CMS did not accept the AMA Relative Value Update...

EBG Brief: Supreme Court to Review ACA Again

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...

Reminder to Complete 2020 TJA IPO Removal Poll

Feb 20, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS

AAHKS members in current practice should have received a request from AAHKS to complete a new poll regarding consequences of the 2018 removal of total knee arthroplasty and the 2020 removal of total hip arthroplasty from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

AAHKS Represented at AMA RUC Meeting

Jan 23, 2020 | CMS

AAHKS was represented by Adam A. Sassoon, MD, MS and Adolph J. “Chick” Yates Jr., MD, FAOA at last week’s AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) Meeting in Phoenix. AAHKS representatives attend all RUC meetings to monitor the issues,...

Experts in Orthopaedics Needed

Jan 23, 2020 | CMS

CMS and Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation – Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (YNHHSC/CORE) are working together on a project to gather expert input on development and reevaluation of total hip and knee arthroplasty outcome measures. If you would...