Report Issued Following PRO Summit

Sep 25, 2015 | Medicare

AAHKS has released a detailed report of the AAHKS Quality and Patient Safety Summit on Total Joint Arthroplasty that it hosted in Baltimore on August 31, 2015. The report details the recommendations made by the attendees to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Visit the New AAHKS ICD-10 Resource Center

Sep 18, 2015 | Medicare, Practice Management

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implementation of ICD-10 starting on October 1, 2015, AAHKS has compiled several resources to help ease the transition. ICD-10 expands the number of codes from 16,000 to 68,000 from the previous iteration, and...

AAHKS Submits Comments on CMS Payment Model

Sep 11, 2015 | Medicare

AAHKS submitted an extensive comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment Model. AAHKS has expressed its concerns to CMS about the proposed timeline, the proposed institutional...

AAHKS Collaborates on Comments Following PRO Summit

Sep 11, 2015 | Medicare

As previously reported, AAHKS convened the AAHKS Quality and Patient Safety Summit on total joint arthroplasty at the end of August. The Summit attendees reached consensus regarding patient-reported outcomes and risk variables suitable for total hip and knee...

AAHKS Comments on CMS Outpatient Prospective Payment System

Sep 4, 2015 | Medicare

In a comment letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) acting administrator, Andrew Slavitt, regarding the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule for 2016 (Proposed Rule), AAHKS focused on four provisions of the...

CMS THA/TKA Payment Measure Dry Run

Aug 28, 2015 | Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a confidential hospital reporting period (dry run) for a new claims-based measure from August 24 – September 22, 2015. CMS added the measure to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program...