AAOS resources support PROM adoption amid new CMS reporting requirements

Lauren Shapiro, MD, MS; Jennifer Rivera, MBA

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have introduced Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Performance Measures and the Transforming Episode Accountability Model.

Orthopaedic surgery trends in gender diversity

Despite the rising number of female medical students, Maxwell V. Phillips and colleagues from Kettering University presented a study at the AAOS 2025 Annual Meeting that revealed the rate of female representation in orthopaedics has increased at a statistically significantly lower rate compared to other medical specialties.