Join Your Peers for a Webinar:

Building a Successful Work from Home Team

Thursday, October 10th | 1:00 PM (ET)

A work from home team is a great way to offer an enticing job opportunity to qualified candidates while potentially reducing your overhead. But while there are some great benefits, there are a few ugly warts as well.

This webinar will show you a successful work from home model being utilized by an orthopaedic practice, as well as how you can get there in your own practice. Come learn from Karrie Fields' journey!

Karrie Fields, FACMPE

CEO | CAO OrthoMaryland

The webinar is a free educational offering for our members.

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SCOA Delegation Visits Washington, D.C.

The SCOA delegation made the rounds in Washington, D.C., this month as part of the AAOS NOLC to champion the interests of musculoskeletal patients and orthopaedic surgeons in our state.

Our delegation included Chris Gross, MD, Cody Ashy, MD, Chris Mazoué, Shane Woolf, MD, Todd Tupis, MD, and Michael Horan, MD.

Are Your Staff Getting the Training They Need?

Send Your Team to the SAOE Annual Meeting!

The SAOE Annual Meeting is where orthopaedic executives and staff get inspired, discover innovative solutions to your practice challenges, and elevate their leadership skills. The 2024 program also features sessions for coding staff to master the latest coding and compliance strategies.

Orthopaedic practice leaders, staff, and coders in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee are invited to attend November 13-15, 2024, in Greenville, South Carolina.

UnitedHealthcare Launching National Gold Card Program to Streamline Prior Authorization for Qualifying Physicians

Effective Oct. 1, 2024, UnitedHealthcare will launch a national Gold Card program, which will reward contracted provider groups who consistently adhere to evidence-based care guidelines. The Gold Card program applies to all UnitedHealthcare commercial, Individual Exchange*, UnitedHealthcare® Medicare Advantage and UnitedHealthcare Community Plans. Click here to learn more.

Holistic Risk Analysis is Key to Protecting Your Practice from Cyberattacks

Content via Medical Economics:

"Health care has the unfortunate distinction of being the most targeted industry for cyber attackers — and has the most expensive average cost of a data breach. Not only are threat actors successfully breaching more organizations and records, but their attack methods are increasingly more sophisticated, now enhanced by artificial intelligence and machine learning." To continue reading, click here.