Published: November 6, 2017

Value 4U

AAO-HNS offers value-added benefits and enhanced resources that help you achieve excellence and provide the best ear, nose, and throat care to your patients.

AAO-HNS offers value-added benefits and enhanced resources that help you achieve excellence and provide the best ear, nose, and throat care to your patients. While you have been busy caring for your patients, we have been busy caring for you. Together, we have accomplished a lot, including:

  • Two new and three updated Clinical Practice Guidelines.
  • Reg-entSM CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registry and Qualified Registry Designations for both 2016 and 2017. Reg-ent will support Quality Performance, Advancing Care Information (ACI), and Improvement Activities (IA) reporting categories of MIPS beginning in 2017.
  • Instruction Courses included in registration for the second year and free education session webcasts for full conference attendees at the AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting & OTO Experience.
  • OTO Open launch, the AAO-HNSF’s peer-reviewed gold open access journal.

As healthcare evolves in these turbulent times, we are continuing our efforts to provide our members with meaningful programs and services. Continued advocacy efforts at both the federal and state levels are a priority. We are excited about the following new initiatives underway:

  • Member+, a program offering Academy members access to over 200 online education activities.
  • Growth and expansion of Reg-ent beyond public reporting including maintenance of certification, research, and post market surveillance capabilities.
  • Quality measures development projects including neurotology, age-related hearing loss, measures directly from CPG Key Action Statements, and rhinoplasty.

We are proud of our collective accomplishments, value you as members, and look forward to serving you and the specialty for years to come. If you have additional inquiries, please email memberservices@entnet.org.

More from November 2017 – Vol. 36, No. 10
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Annual Meeting highlights
The AAO-HNSF 2017 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience offered an array of new and well-regarded opportunities to join colleagues in the premier education and specialty event of the year.
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CY 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS): What does it mean for you?
On July 13, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the proposed rule for payments in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2018.
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New bundled sinus codes don’t account for additional resources
On September 6, the AAO-HNS submitted comments on the CY 2018 Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs proposed rule. The main issue that could impact AAO-HNS members is the proposed payment for new bundled sinus codes in the ASC.
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Clinical Consensus Statement: BDS update
In keeping with the AAO-HNSF’s longstanding tradition of evidence-based reviews to aid physicians in providing safe and efficacious care for their patients, a Clinical Consensus Statement: Balloon Dilation of the Sinuses (BDS) was previewed at our recent Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
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Defining Quality in Otolaryngology with New Measures
The American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) is dedicated to the development and implementation of clinically valid performance measures, which contribute to success in quality of care for otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons.
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Academy receives Best Mobile App award
We are pleased to share the great news that the Academy was awarded “Best Mobile App 2016” for the AAO-HNSF 2016 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience at the Trade Show Executive Gold 100 Awards & Summit presentation on September 28, 2017.
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Academy, 3P Workgroup collaborate to review position statements
Position Statements are used to designate a statement, policy, or declaration of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery and Foundation (AAO-HNS/F) on a particular topic or set of topics.
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2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed rule
On June 20, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2018 proposed rule for the second year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP).
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CMS listened!
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decided not to finalize their proposal to require all Medicare advanced diagnostic imaging final accreditation survey reports as well as acceptable plans of correction (POC) in the Fiscal Year 2018 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (IPPS) Prospective Payment System Final Rule.
Committees
2018 Committee Application Opened November 1
Want to get more involved with your Academy? Apply to become a committee member!
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Board of Governors: If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
I have to chuckle a little as I write this with my wife beside me, accusing me of having said “yes” to one more thing.
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Roger D. Cole, MD, MA, named Chair-Elect, Ethics Committee
The Board of Directors (BOD) appointed Roger D. Cole, MD, MA, to the position of Chair-Elect, Ethics Committee at the AAO-HNSF 2017 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience in Chicago, IL.
Cecelia E. Schmalbach, MD, MSc
Cecelia E. Schmalbach, MD, MSc, named BOD Coordinator-Elect for Research and Quality
The Board of Directors approved Cecelia E. Schmalbach, MD, MSc, as the Coordinator-Elect for Research and Quality.
James C. Denneny III, MD AAO-HNS/F EVP/CEO
The path to healthcare reform
Last month, I raised the premise that meaningful healthcare reform could not be accomplished without the participation and cooperation of all participants in the debate.
Gavin Setzen, MD AAO-HNS/F Past President
Your membership and value expectations
Do you value your membership in the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) as much as I do? The clinical practice of medicine has become enormously complicated, and we live in an era of constant flux in the provision of healthcare—especially as it relates to regulatory requirements, socioeconomic and reimbursement challenges, and a plethora of other interjected patient care paradigm burdens.