AAOS Now, April 2022
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The AAOS Medical Liability Committee
In 2006, I was an AAOS Leadership Fellow attending the National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. David Halsey, MD, FAAOS, was chair of the AAOS Council on Advocacy at that time, and I was awed by the tremendous impact that the Council’s work had on our ability to practice our art.
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Confusion Continues over Reporting More than One Calcaneus Osteotomy, Code 28300, per Surgery
The March 2021 AAOS Now article titled “AAOS Facilitates Increase in NCCI MUE for Calcaneus Osteotomy Code 28300” discussed the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs) for osteotomy Current Procedural Terminology ® (CPT ®) code 28300, Osteotomy; calcaneus (eg, Dwyer or Chambers type procedure), with or without internal fixation.
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Two New Coding Publications Available
The AAOS two-volume publication Complete Global Service Data for Orthopaedic Surgery was extensively reviewed and revised for 2022 by the AAOS Coding Coverage and Reimbursement Committee (CCRC) and is now available for purchase in print and as an e-book.
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Coding Education on Demand: New Educational Resources
A recording of the AAOS coding webinar CPT & CMS 2022 Updates, presented in February by John Heiner, MD, FAAOS, and William Creevy, MD, FAAOS, is now available on the AAOS website in the Webinar OnDemand section.