Residents' Newsletter Contents

Vol. 6 No. 4 - April 2008
Editors: Jennifer M. Wolf, MD & Hassan R. Mir, MD

This Issue

News for residents:

• Orthopaedic Alphabet: AAOS
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Moving Stories: The Exhibit
  Coming to you at no charge!
• 2009 Annual Meeting Call for Podium and Poster Abstracts
• Immerse yourself in 75 years of orthopaedic history

Features:

1. Practice Tips: "Place of Service Affects Your Reimbursement"
2. Internet Resources: New Learning Opportunities on Orthopaedic Knowledge Online (OKO) for March
3. Calendar

This Issue: News for Residents

Orthopaedic Alphabet: AAOS
Are you often confused by the seemingly unending number of acronyms used throughout orthopaedics and medicine? Do you know the difference between the AAOS, AOA, ABOS, AAHKS and ASSH, to name a few (and that is just some of the As!)? The Residents Newsletter is here to help you with a new section "The Orthopaedic Alphabet." Each month a new acronym will be explained to assist you in better understanding the orthopaedic environment.

AAOS: Seems like a "no brainer." Actually there are two definitions for this acronym. The first of course being the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons established 75 years ago in 1932. It is a 501C(3) non profit organization whose primary purpose is musculoskeletal education to orthopaedic surgeons and others in the world.

AAOS also stands for the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a 501C(6) not-for-profit organization created in 1997 and primarily engaged in health policy and advocacy activities on behalf of musculoskeletal patients and the profession of orthopaedic surgery.

AAOS members belong to both organizations as they share a common board of directors and membership. Both work in support of the fellowship, orthopaedic profession and our patients. FYI: the designation 501C(3) / (6) refer to the sections of the US Internal Revenue code that defines these types of organizations.

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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Moving Stories: The Exhibit
Coming to you at no charge!

As a part of the Academy’s 75th Anniversary celebration, an exhibit chronicling the last 75 years of orthopaedic history was created. Moving Stories: The Exhibit is a beautiful, modular exhibit that is available at no charge to travel across the country to your clinic, hospital, university, State or Specialty Society meetings.

Moving Stories: The Exhibit contains kiosks highlighting the Academy’s history, The New Century, Polio, The War Years, Scoliosis, Joint Replacement, Specialties, The Future and Orthopaedic Industry. There is optional lighting for each kiosk, pop-up banners, and in addition, there is a lit display featuring hundreds of hip and knee implants.

This modular exhibit can be displayed in its entirety or by choosing only a few subject areas, making it very flexible for different venues and space options. A tool kit with packing and assembly instructions as well as promotional resources is available upon request.

Moving Stories: The Exhibit is available on a first come, first served basis, so contact Kayee Dooley, public relations coordinator by phone, 847-384-4035, or email.

Moving Stories: The Traveling Exhibit has been made possible by a grant from the George M. Boswell, Jr., MD, Fund for Orthopaedic Surgery, Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation.

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2009 Annual Meeting Call for Podium and Poster Abstracts
The AAOS Annual Meeting Program Committee is soliciting abstracts on a wide variety of orthopaedic topics. Share your research and insights with orthopaedic professionals from around the world at the 76th AAOS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, February 25 – March 1, 2009. The latest in technology, science and research are waiting to be presented at the next Annual Meeting. The deadline for submitting abstracts for a poster/podium presentation or scientific exhibit is June 2, 2008. Submit your abstract on line.

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Immerse Yourself in 75 Years of Orthopaedic History

Everything the 75th Anniversary has to offer can be experienced by visiting the new 75th Anniversary Website.

• The interactive historical digital timeline takes viewers on an adventure where they can view more than 1,500 events that have taken place over the history of orthopaedics.
• Excerpts from books, Moving Stories: Seventy-five Years of Orthopaedic Surgery and Getting It Straight: A History of American Orthopaedics.
• eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedic in Art online gallery.
• Films, Moving Pictures (trailer) and Orthopaedic Allegro.
• Academy Chronicles – get an up close view of the 3-dimensional artwork that hangs in the Academy’s lobby and includes full-size and miniature replicas of pieces of the Academy’s 75 year history.
  

Practice Tips

Place of Service Affects Your Reimbursement
By Mary LeGrand, RN, MA, CCS-P, CPC

Facility, nonfacility designations make a difference

In 2008, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the department of Health and Human Services intends to focus on Place of Service errors for services submitted by physicians. According to the OIG work plan, “We will review physician coding of place of service on claims for services performed in ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) and hospital outpatient departments. Federal regulations… provide for different levels of payments to physicians depending on where the services are performed. Medicare pays a physician a higher amount when a service is performed in a non-facility setting, such as a physician’s office, than it does when the service is performed in a hospital outpatient department or, with certain exceptions, in an ASC. We will determine whether physicians properly coded the places of service on claims for services provided in ASCs and hospital outpatient departments.” Read the complete article in AAOS Now.

Internet Resources

Did you know that more than 100 in-depth, step-by-step surgical technique videos are available to Residents free of charge on OKO? See the complete list of what’s available.

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New Learning Opportunities on Orthopaedic Knowledge Online (OKO)
Volume 6, Number 4, April 2008

NOTE: Access to OKO is FREE to all orthopaedic residents, but it does require you to log in using your last name and password. Forgotten your password? (HINT: Unless you have personalized your password, it is the 8-digit number above your name on your JAAOS mailing label!)

Clinical Topics
Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries by Amir Mostofi, MD; Clifford G. Rios, MD; T. Duncan Tennent, FRCS (Orth); Robert Arciero, MD; August D. Mazzocca, MD
Allograft Safety in Orthopaedics (Slide lecture format) by Annuniato Amendola, MD; David J. Gocke, MD; Kurt P. Spindler, MD
Surgical Exposures in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty (Video) by Jonathan Lam, MD, PhD; Michael Ries, MD; Thomas Parker Vail, MD; Robert Bourne, MD; Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA
Syndactyly of the Hand by Scott H. Kozin, MD

New CME Modules
Rheumatoid Hand: Swan-Neck Deformity
Periprosthetic Fractures About the Knee
The Medical-Legal Aspects of Compartment Syndrome

New Orthopaedic Theater Video
Hemiarthroplasty for Proximal Humeral Fractures: Restoration of The Gothic Arch

Industry Relationships
2008 Symposium: The Evolving Orthopaedic Surgeon - Industry Relationship

Useful Resident Links

AAOS Course Calendar	AAOS Practice Management Website
AAOS Now	JAAOS
AAOS Resident Website	Orthopaedic Knowledge Online (OKO)
OITE & ABOS Preparation	Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Fellowship Program On-Line Application and Directory
Postgraduate Orthopaedic Fellowships 2007	AOFAS-sponsored Foot & Ankle Fellowships
OREF	American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS)
AMA Fellowship & Residency Interactive Database (FREIDA)	US Bone & Joint Decade
AAOS Job Placement

Calendar

For a complete listing of AAOS sponsored CME Courses: AAOS CME Course Calendar

May 16 - 17, 2008	OTA Advanced Trauma Techniques Course for Residents Dallas, TX
June 2, 2008	Deadline for submitting abstracts for a poster/podium presentation or scientific exhibit for the 2009 AAOS Annual Meeting