AAHKS Supports Physician-Owned Hospital Model

May 23, 2019 | Advocacy, CMS

AAHKS joined more than 70 state and specialty societies, as well as other interested parties, in writing to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma expressing support for a demonstration model that will be submitted to the...

Get BPCI Advanced Guidance for Outpatient TKA

May 16, 2019 | CMS

If you’re not sure where to start with the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) second application period for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced) Model Year 3, AAHKS is providing a summary from our legislative...

CMS Issues New Primary Care Model

May 8, 2019 | CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced five value-based transformation models for primary care services. The Department of Health and Human Services and CMS believe this new Primary Cares Initiative “will transform primary care to deliver...

BPCI Advanced Opens Second Application Period

Apr 25, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the second application period for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced). Participants selected for the second cohort will start Model Year 3, beginning on January 1,...

New Part D Policies Address Opioid Epidemic

Apr 11, 2019 | CMS

New Part D policies from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can be reviewed in a roadmap published in a recent blog by Principal Deputy Administrator for Operations, Kimberly Brandt, “Early last year, the published a roadmap outlining our efforts...

Participate in Documentation Burden Survey

Apr 11, 2019 | CMS

The not-for-profit Health Level Seven (HL7) Da Vinci Project aims to develop content standards that help providers and others to positively impact clinical, quality, cost and care management outcomes. The Da Vinci Project is working with CMS on a survey where the...