Join Us in Isle of Palms for the 2025 SCOA Annual Meeting

Same great research, same great people, family friendly location!

📍 Wild Dunes Resort

🗓 July 31 - August 2, 2025

Join your colleagues for the 2025 SCOA Annual Meeting in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, on July 31 - August 2, 2025!

This new destination offers a welcoming, family-friendly environment, making it the perfect spot to bring your loved ones along while you reconnect with colleagues, dive into the latest research, and share ideas.

What you can count on:

• Cutting-edge research presentations
• Networking with your South Carolina peers
• A collaborative atmosphere
• And yes, plenty of time for catching up with familiar faces

Early bird pricing is underway now. Register today and save!

Join Us for an Upcoming Webinar:

Managed Care Tactics & Strategy

Thursday, May 1 | 1:00 PM (ET)

Creating and assessing a managed care strategy can be overwhelming due to market nuances, products, and provider shifts, just to name a few obstacles. In this webinar, Strategic Healthcare Partners, LLC, will outline how best to simplify your approach and dive into the key pillars of such planning. This includes key components such as provider enrollment, contract language review, negotiation tactics, and analytics to best develop a manageable plan by payor and product.

Strategic Healthcare Partners, LLC, will also highlight trends in policy, revenue cycle analysis, relationship management, and performance review necessary to assess your payors. Afterwards, you should have more tactics to not only level the playing field, but have an advantage come time for negotiation or service line growth.

Episode 5: Learn the Ins & Outs of Google Forms!

From patient feedback to surveys, Dr. Laura-Kathryn Neal explains in this episode how Google Forms can make life easier for the entire staff at a medical practice. While Google is a household name, not everyone is familiar with Google Forms.

Dr. Neal starts with the basics, including the intuitive interface and why it's HIPAA compliant. Google Forms also offers efficient ways to get feedback from staff anonymously and regularly. Giving Google Forms a try is as easy as getting started with any other Google platforms.

Episode 6: Revolutionize Your Organization's Workflow with Trello

The sixth episode focuses on task management within medical practices and how the free version of Trello can revolutionize an organization's workflow while also boosting efficiency. Dr. Laura-Kathryn Neal starts with the basics, explaining how Trello organizes projects into boards that can be used to manage tasks and foster team collaboration.

Users can use Trello to easily assign staff assignments and track progress as the team works toward a deadline. Dr. Neal pinpoints specific ways Trello can be useful in a medical practice, like tracking inventory. Statistics show Trello saves time and cuts back on the number of errors within a team.

EHR Interoperability and Artificial Intelligence: Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse

Tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can make clinicians’ lives easier and more successful by relieving administrative burdens, streamlining workflows, and improving patient safety and risk management.

This article from The Doctors Company emphasizes that EHR interoperability is the essential first step. Click here to learn more.

SC Orthopaedic Practice Administrators, Ortho Service Line Directors, and emerging leaders in both private and hospital settings are encouraged to join the Southeastern Association of Orthopaedic Executives (SAOE).

SAOE offers ortho practice leaders from South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and learn from one another. SAOE membership and attendance at the annual meeting is an affordable and sound investment in your administrative team members.