“Appropriate” Management of Distal Radial Fractures Improves Outcomes, Lowers Cost
Many surgeons realize that to improve value, we must improve the quality of care while decreasing its cost. Clinical Practice …
Many surgeons realize that to improve value, we must improve the quality of care while decreasing its cost. Clinical Practice …
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Leon S. Benson, MD.
Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) …
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Richard Yoon, MD and Grigory Gershkovich, MD.
The …
I recently returned from the 13th meeting of the Combined Orthopaedic Associations, affectionately known as COMOC 2016. This …
The final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulating “episode-of-care” Medicare payments to hospitals for hip …

Over the last 10 years, the AAOS has invested a great deal of effort and resources into developing Clinical Practice …
The current prescription-opioid/heroin epidemic in the US has been much publicized of late. According to a recent AAOS information statement…
Rating hospitals on the basis of complications is one thing, but when you publish complication-rate scorecards for individual surgeons, …
For most physicians, HR 4302, federal legislation signed into law on April 1, 2014, was important because it delayed until …