Nov 6, 2015 | Medicare, Practice Management
Healthcare Finance News reports that of the 10 percent of claims filed under ICD-10, only a fraction have been rejected by CMS due to coding errors. Rejections were DUE to incorrectly submitted ICD-9 codes and incomplete or incorrect information. The article points...
Oct 9, 2015 | Practice Management
Cigna has announced that it will implement a musculoskeletal precertification program beginning January 1, 2016. According to a letter sent to AAHKS, “ordering physicians will need to request precertification directly through eviCore for certain musculoskeletal...
Oct 2, 2015 | AAHKS Business, In the News, Practice Management
A recent $750,000 settlement between the Department of Health and Human Services and a physician group stands as a reminder that HIPAA compliance must be taken seriously. The new AAHKS Advocacy firm, Epstein Becker & Green, takes a look at this case and the...
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...
Jul 10, 2015 | Medicare, Performance Measures, Practice Management
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed an extensive “pilot” of a new Medicare Part A and B payment model, “Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) Model” under which acute care hospitals in geographic areas covering about 25% of patients...
Jun 30, 2015 | Practice Management, Research
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) invites letters of interest from those who wish to partner with ACR and AAHKS to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for perioperative management of rheumatic disease medications in total joint arthroplasty of...
