Feb 14, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week AAHKS joined 130 other national and state medical societies in writing to urge Congress to include in the forthcoming March 2025 appropriations bill, provisions that both reverse the latest round of Medicare payment cuts and provide physicians with a...
Feb 7, 2025 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
On Jan. 1, 2025, the NOPAIN (Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation) Act of December 2022 took effect. This new law directs CMS to make a “separate” payment under the Outpatient Proposed Payment System (OPPS) for certain non-opioid pain relief in the hospital...
Jan 10, 2025 | CMS, Federal Guidelines, Reimbursement
On Jan. 1, 2025, the NOPAIN (Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation) Act of December 2022 took effect. This new law directs CMS to make a “separate” payment under the Outpatient Proposed Payment System (OPPS) for certain non-opioid pain relief in the hospital...
Nov 15, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Thank you to those who have already taken the time to write their Congressional Representatives. If you have not already done so, please click here to write your Representative today to ask them to support the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act”...
Nov 9, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
As we reported earlier this week, Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and six of their Congressional colleagues introduced the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act” (H.R. 10073). This bipartisan legislation seeks to...
Nov 7, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Last week Congressman Greg Murphy, MD introduced the bipartisan Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, to support physicians and protect access to care for Medicare beneficiaries. AAHKS joined 130 other health care organizations in supporting...