AAOS Now May 2008

Volume 2, Number 5

Cover Story

• Will there be a Medicare physician payment fix?
• “I want to go off call”
• OIG’s Morris: An enforcer’s perspective

Clinical News & Views

• Return to sports likely even with traumatic type II lesions
• Study shows surgical skills are transferable
• “Test driving” ACL reconstruction in young athletes
  (View a video simulation)
• Screw vs. tightrope fixation for syndesmotic fractures
• Elbow overuse injuries common in young baseball players
• What’s better: ankle arthrodesis or ankle replacement?
• The ACL “window of opportunity”
• MACT shows promise in repairing osteochondral defects of the talus
• Don’t shave unless you have to!
• Second Look: Clinical
• Patient characteristics affect rotator cuff outcomes
• Knee simulator project moves from back room to main hall
• Meetings and Course Listings

Research & Technology

• The silent epidemic: CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
• Enhancing the “E” in OREF
• Research Awards: Call for Papers
• New osteoporosis monograph available
• CORQAT welcomes residents on committees
• AAOS/ORS sponsor imaging/CAS symposium
• BMPs and cancer: Is the risk real?

Managing Your Practice

• Retirement plans: Choose one and invest regularly
• Are you missing out on the news?
• What is an “OPA-C,” anyway?
• Modifier changes for 2008
• What’s up with practice management?
• What is a preventable adverse event?
• When you’re on the “hot seat”
• Medicare project focuses on EHR

Reimbursement & Regulation

• Giuliani urges accountability, tort reform
• Issues facing America: Medical liability reform
• AAOS Board approves position statement on government healthcare programs

Your AAOS

• “On call” debate continues
• Am I leading yet?
• The power of a positive role model
• Call for abstracts: 2009 Annual Meeting
• Tornadoes blast Tennessee orthopaedists
• Bring the 75th Anniversary celebration to your town
• BOC elects new officers
• In Memoriam
• Society News
• New AMA Impairment Guidelines add five axioms
• What do you know about the PE guidelines?
• Do you know someone who deserves recognition?
• Industry News
• The 40s: Tragedy of war spurs orthopaedic advances

May 2013
Volume 7, Number 5

• Cover Story
• Clinical News & Views
• Research & Quality
• Managing Your Practice
• Advocacy
• Your AAOS
• Marketplace

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