Mar 24, 2022 | In the News, Membership
AAHKS Health Policy Fellow Prem N. Ramkumar, MD, MBA, wrote an article for Forbes published March 19, titled “Should Millennials Start Saving Money For Their Joint Replacement Now?” The article examines efforts by commercial and government payers to lower costs around...
Feb 24, 2022 | Federal Guidelines, In the News
A reporter from Modern Healthcare interviewed Adam Rana, MD, AAHKS Advocacy Committee Chair, regarding the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) payment model, which attempts to achieve cost savings by bundling payment for joint replacement. Specifically,...
Feb 18, 2022 | In the News, Research
The Journal of Arthroplasty has published the March 2022 issue online. Published research articles include “The Impact of Pre-Operative Healthcare Utilization on Complications, Readmissions, and Post-Operative Healthcare Utilization Following Total Joint...
Jan 28, 2022 | In the News, Patient Outcomes, Research
Research published online this week in The Journal of Arthroplasty found that a shorter hospital stay is not associated with increased risk on 90-day hospital returns. Lead author Christine J. Wu, MD and her team examined whether short stay arthroplasty, defined as...
Jan 20, 2022 | In the News, Publications, Research
A December 29 Healio article covered research originally published in The Journal of Arthroplasty looking at manual vs. robotic TKAs. “Researchers retrospectively reviewed data from 2,392 manual TKA (MTKA) procedures performed by six high-volume MTKA surgeons matched...
Jan 6, 2022 | In the News, Popular
See what’s important to your colleagues! The most popular AAHKS Weekly News stories in December 2021 were: Write Congress to About Reimbursement Reductions asking AAHKS members to contact their elected officials to stop further reductions to Medicare reimbursement....
