News that CMS removed TKA from inpatient-only list comes at start of AAHKS meeting

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DALLAS — The American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting got underway here on Nov. 2, the day after an announcement from CMS that it finalized its Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule, which effectively moved total knee arthroplasty from the CMS inpatient-only, or IPO, list to its outpatient list.