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