AAOS in the States

• October 2012: CMS Publishes Guidance on Documenting Medical Necessity for Total Joint Replacements; Victory on LCD Denying Post Single Joint Replacement Admissions to IRF’s; AAOS Offers ‘Grand Rounds’ Cultural Competency Training; CMS to Hold; Provider Calls About; ACA Implementation; AAOS and ABOS help you manage your MOC; A Special Message from American Medical Association President, Jeremy A. Lazarus, M.D.; Introduction to the American Joint Replacement Registry; Upcoming Events in Delaware; Operation Walk USA
• June 2012: New York Revises Medicaid Coverage Policy After Receiving Comments from AAOS; Help AAOS Respond to Medicare Audits!; Oregon’s HERC Considers Coverage Policies of Orthopaedic Procedures; AAOS Offers ’Grand Rounds’ Cultural Competency Training; AAOS Participates in the Council of State Governments Leadership Conference; All-new Learning Portfolio is Now Online!
• April 2012: Important Information about ACA Value-Based Modifier; AAOS Launches Real-Time State Legislative and Regulatory Tracking; Virginia Secretary of Health and Orthopaedic Surgeon Bill Hazel, MD Shepherds Physician led Health Care Teams Bill through Legislative Process; April is Youth Sports Safety Month!-Get involved and personalize your own Letter to the Editor; Increase in Direct Access to Physical Therapy Legislation; AAOS and ABOS help you manage your MOC; Advocacy Resources for State Societies
• February 2012: Medicare Audit Leaders Engage AAOS Members at Annual Meeting; State Legislative Update; CMS Announces Final Rule for 2012 MPFS; HHS to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date; Complaints Continue Regarding Version 5010; AAOS Informed Patient Program Launches New Learning Modules; Operation Walk USA
• January 2012: Orthopaedic Surgeons and Medicare Audits Programs; Current Medicare Audits; Frequently Asked Questions; Terms You Should Know; AAOS Response to Audits; 20 Steps to Getting Paid Faster; Recovery Audit Prepayment Review Demonstration; State Legislative Updates
• November 2011: Leader Makes a Difference at the AMA Scope of Practice Summit; AAOS Health Policy Action Fund Grants Awarded to State Orthopaedic Societies; CMS announces final rule for 2012; MPFS Knee Meniscectomy Medicare Payments Changed in 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule; Orthopaedic Specialty Societies Announce Specialty Day Programs at the AAOS Annual Meeting; AAOS Represented at the Council of State Governments Annual Meeting; Medicare Payment Audits Continue to Target Florida Orthopaedists; ORS Annual Meeting Registration
• September 2011: MedPAC Recommends Pay Cut for Physicians; Dartmouth Atlas Releases Study of Hospital Readmission Rates, Including Hip Fractures; Health Affairs Blames Physician Fees For Rise in Healthcare Spending; PPACA Challenge Headed to Supreme Court; AAOS Seeks to Influence State Med-Mal Ruling; The Orthopaedic Practice in US: 2010 Report; Governors Express Frustration with PPACA; Implementation Deadline to Submit Non-binding Letters of Intent for First Bundling Model Extended
• August 2011: AAOS Attends AMA State Policy Roundtable; OKO September updates now online!; CMS Seeks Providers to Test Bundled Payment Options; AAOS Exhibits at National Conference of State Legislatures; Be The Eyes and Ears of the 2012 MORE Awards!; ICD-10 WATCH-Will you be ready?; Advocacy Resources
• July 2011: Integrated Physical Therapy Services Blocked in California; AAHKS and AAOS Collaborate on Response to Total Hip and Total Knee Local Coverage Decision; States Pursue Major Medical Liability Reforms in 2011; New HIX Regulations Give States and Payers Much Flexibility While Expanding Patients’ Access to Affordable Health Benefits; Five Things You Didn’t Know About the AAOS Health Policy Action Fund; Maryland is First State to Prohibit Referral to Physician Owned Imaging Services; Advocacy Resources for State Societies
• June 2011: AAOS Submits Comments on ACOs; Legal Challenge to PPACA; Podiatric Education in California; Are you ready for the HIPAA 5010 conversion?; AAOS Revenue; Management Program powered by Gateway EDI; Impending; Medicare EPrescribing; Penalty; Florida Local; Coverage; Determination on; Total Joint; Replacements; PAC Activities
• May 2011: CMS Proposes Rule for Accountable Care Organizations; Decide to Drive Campaign Launched; Give Your Practice a Check Up With An Operational Assessment; Antitrust Exemption Bill Gains Momentum; 2nd Annual Specialty Physician Candidate Workshop; Advocacy in the States
• March 2011: Up to the Courts: The Future of the Health Care Reform Law; 2011 PSA Campaign to Curb Distracted Driving; Maryland Patient Referral Law Remains Unsettled; Enhancing Your Practice’s Revenue: A Primer for Orthopaedic Surgeons; Advocacy in the States
• January 2011: State Legislatures Enter a New Political Environment in 2011; Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty; Healthcare IT; The 112th Congress; SGR Update; The AAOE Annual Con-ference; Advocacy in the States
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