title: Practice Management Strategies Among Current Members of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.
abstract: A survey was conducted at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) to determine current practice management patterns among AAHKS members.
  
  
  
  A survey was conducted by the session moderator during the annual AAHKS meeting using an audience response system. A series of practice management issues were reviewed with AAHKS members. The survey contained multiple choice and yes and no questions. The audience responses were collected in a central database and then immediately displayed for the audience to review.
  
  
  
  The survey responses provided interesting data on a variety of topics including: surgeon demographics, surgical activity, practice status, use of physician extenders, sources of ancillary income, the use of electronic medical records and surgeon satisfaction. Interestingly, 51% of AAHKS members remain in private practice and fee for service remains the most common form of compensation (48%). The vast majority of AAHKS members do not perform hip arthroscopy (86%) or hip preservation procedures (87%).
  
  
  
  Valuable information regarding practice patterns of AAHKS members was obtained from this survey. Future surveys will need to focus on 3 areas of activity: surgeon involvement in bundled payment programs frequency of submission of patient data to a joint registry and the frequency of outpatient total joint arthroplasty.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Jay R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lieberman
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt Orthopaedics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Gregory G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Polkowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Othopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Craig J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Della Valle
mesh_terms: D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee; D007719:Knee Joint; D020399:Practice Management; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012955:Societies, Medical; D066231:Surgeons; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
keywords: ancillary income; practice management; total hip arthroplasty; total knee arthroplasty