Time is Running Out: Secure Your Housing for the 2024 SCOA Annual Meeting

The group hotel and villa rates expire June 30, 2024, but we expect the block to sell out before that deadline! Register today to receive the booking ID.

Soak up the beauty of Kiawah Island while continuing your education! Join us August 1-3, 2024, for the SCOA Annual Meeting featuring dynamic keynotes, member talks, research presentations, as well as the opportunity to reconnect with your peers from across the state.

Don't forget to check out additional social events & activities to make the most of your time on the island:

• Golf The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island: $490 per person
• Organized Tennis: $50 per person
• Friday Family Dinner: This event is free for the first 2 adults and first 2 kids.
• Friday Morning Yogalates (for spouse/guests in attendance): Free
• Saturday Morning Fun Run: Free

Notice: Reporting of MOC Credit

Many specialty Boards will allow their diplomates to self-report the credit earned. However, the DCMA is required to report the MOC credit claimed for the following boards using the diplomate’s Board ID # and Date of Birth (month and day): Anesthesiology, Pathology, Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. This information must be supplied accurately on the evaluation form to ensure credit can be reported.

The DCMA is unable to report MOC credit claimed for the following boards that no longer offer self-reporting at this time: Internal Medicine, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, and Pediatrics.

By claiming the MOC credit on the Evaluation form, you are giving the DCMA permission to use this information/data to report your participation to these Boards via the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).

ABOS MOC Recognition Statement

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABOS credit.

2024 Medical Service Provider Manual Updates

Content via SC Workers' Compensation Commission:

In 2024, CMS priced a new procedure code, CPT 27278, and included the cost of the implant in the non-facility RVU. In response, Fair Health has issued the following clarification when billing for CPT 27278.

Clarification - Billing for CPT 27278

When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed the Non-facility professional rate for CPT 27278, Arthrodesis, sacroiliac joint, percutaneous, with image guidance, including placement of intra-articular implant(s) (e.g., bone allograft[s], synthetic device[s]), without placement of transfixation device, the cost of the implant used in conjunction with this procedure was included in the Medicare fee. Because the maximum allowable payment (MAP) amounts in the South Carolina Medical Provider Services Manual are based on Medicare rates, the Non-facility MAP for CPT 27278 also includes the cost of the implant. Accordingly, when billing or reimbursing for this procedure code when it is provided in an office, freestanding radiology center or other Non-facility setting, the implant should not be paid separately. Reimbursement for the implant used in this procedure is already included in the Non-facility MAP for CPT 27278.

This clarification may also be found on the South Carolina Workers Compensation Commission website.

Join Us for an Upcoming Webinar

What You Need to Know: FTC Ruling on Non-Compete Agreements

Thursday, June 6th | 1:00 PM (ET)

A new rule from the Federal Trade Commission is set to transform the governance of non-compete agreements in the US.

Join attorney Megan Heiden of Smith Hulsey & Busey for a discussion on the major implications of the rule, including what this means for your practice from a management standpoint. 

The webinar is a free educational offering for our members.

Please follow the instructions to register for the event.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom containing information about joining the webinar. If you don't see the email within 24 hours of registering, please check your spam folder.

Is Your Practice Complying with the Law?

Content via Medical Economics:

"It is important to ensure your organization is meeting all applicable federal and state regulations. To do so, organizations must implement an effective compliance program. The work doesn’t end there, however." Click here to read the full article.

Cyberattacks are Bankrupting Health Care Providers. Insurance May Help.

Content via Medical Economics:

"The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare Inc., a health care technology organization owned by UnitedHealth Group, taught health care providers something they know all too well already—their entire livelihood lies in the hands of the nation’s health insurance companies." To continue reading, click here.

Be Featured in Our Next E-Newsletter:

Share a Book that has Shaped You as a Leader!

Send in a short one-paragraph summary of a book that was meaningful to your professional journey to be featured in the monthly e-newsletter. This is a special opportunity to help support the growth of your peers and have your writing featured.

Summaries can be sent to Sarah Thompson.

Past Recommendations Include:

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks
• The Powerful Purpose of Introverts: Why the World Needs YOU to be YOU by Holly Gerth
• Leading with Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence by Michael E. Frisina, PhD, and Robert W. Frisina, MA
• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• What Exceptional Leaders Know & Exceptional Leaders Playbook by Tracy Spears and Wally Schmader
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
• The Traveler’s Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• The Power of Moments by Chip & Dan Heath

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.