Dec 3, 2020 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines, Legislation, Medicare
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2021 Medicare Physician Payment Schedule (PFS) Final Rule. Within the Rule CMS stated that they would move forward with the AMA-RUC recommended revaluation of total joint arthroplasty CPT...
Aug 3, 2018 | Federal Guidelines
The following industry symposium takes place at the 2018 AAHKS Annual Meeting: Thursday, November 2 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Breaking Down the Buzz DJO Surgical Breaking down the hottest topics and technologies in orthopaedics, this session will describe surgical techniques...
Jun 15, 2018 | Federal Guidelines, Membership
The AAHKS Membership Department would like to thank the vast majority of AAHKS members who have renewed their memberships for 2018. Because we are at the half-year point, membership and subscriptions to the JOA have expired for those who have not yet paid 2018 dues....
Jun 8, 2018 | Federal Guidelines
by Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA and Bradford S. Waddell, MD 2017-2018 AAHKS Health Policy Fellows This week, members of AAHKS and staff were in Washington D.C. for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference (NOLC)...
Jun 1, 2018 | Advocacy, Federal Guidelines
AAHKS has moved to the top Advisors’ Circle level of the Orthopaedic Political Action Committee (OrthoPAC), our PAC representing orthopaedic surgeons in Washington. You can help strengthen the AAHKS advocacy efforts by conveniently contributing to OrthoPAC from your...
Apr 27, 2018 | Federal Guidelines
There are five weeks remaining to submit abstracts for the 2018 AAHKS Annual Meeting. Abstracts, symposia proposals and surgical technique video proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. (CDT) on June 1. Log in to the submission website using your AAHKS username and password....
