AAOS Responds to the IPO Elimination Reversal in 2022 CMS Outpatient Rule

On July 19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule.

Learn More about Advocacy at the AAOS 2021 Annual Meeting

Douglas W. Lundy, MD, MBA, FAAOS

I encourage you to consider four advocacy opportunities at the Annual Meeting: the OrthoPAC booth in the Exhibit Hall, the OrthoPAC Donor Luncheon, the OrthoPAC Resident Leadership Reception, and meeting your state orthopaedic society leaders.

American Medical Association’s Webinar Clarifies CPT E/M Revisions

The June AAOS Now article “‘Technical Corrections’: CPT Evaluation and Management Publishes Additional Guideline Revisions” raised several questions about how revised and retroactive guidelines made March 9 would affect providers.

Coding Alert: ICD-10-CM ‘Excludes 1’ Claims Edit

The “Excludes 1” notation in the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code set indicates that the excluded code listed in the note cannot be billed with the code(s) listed above the notation.

AAOS Posts New Webinar about Prior Authorization

The Prior Authorizations, Peer-to-Peer Review webinar, presented in July by Eric Stiefel, MD, FAAOS, and Christopher Kauffman, MD, FAAOS, is now available on the AAOS website in the Webinars OnDemand section.