The Spring Program Committee is starting to put together the meeting agenda for the Spring Conference taking place May 15-17, 2015 at Camden on the Lake in Lake Ozark, MO.   We want to hear from you on those topics and speakers you would like to see included in the program.  We do plan to have a Clinical Manager track during the meeting as well.  So ideas on content for Administrators and Clinical Managers are encouraged.   

Email your ideas to  fcobbe@cobbemanagement.com

By Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News

The Obama administration Monday announced a goal of accelerating changes to Medicare so that within four years, half of the program's traditional spending will go to doctors, hospitals and other providers that coordinate their patient care, stressing quality and frugality.

The announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell is intended to spur efforts to supplant Medicare's traditional fee-for-service medicine, in which doctors, hospitals and other medical providers are paid for each case or service without regard to how the patient fares. Since the passage of the federal health law in 2010, the administration has been designing new programs and underwriting experiments to come up with alternate payment models. 

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Source: Health News Florida

The Midwest AAOE recently distributed an email to our members in Missouri requesting they participate in an economic impact study developed by the Missouri State Orthopaedic Association.  The MSOA should be commended for taking the lead in quantifying the contributions that orthopaedic practices have to local economies and communities.  If any of our practices in Missouri did not receive the email from our office, please let us know and we will resend that information to you.