Exec Chat: AAOS 2021 Outgoing President Bosco Discusses Hot-Button Issues – Inpatient-Only List, Pre-Authorization, New Tech

 
• By Marion Webb

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is welcoming attendees and exhibitors to its live annual meeting in San Diego, requiring proof of vaccination. In an interview with Medtech Insight, outgoing AAOS president Joseph Bosco gives a preview of what to expect at this year’s biggest gathering of the orthopedic community.

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With the annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons conference underway at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego until 4 September, Medtech Insight talked to outgoing AAOS president Joseph Bosco, an orthopedic surgeon at NYU Langone Health, about hot button issues in the orthopedic community and what to expect.

Bosco said that beside the ongoing pandemic, one of the hot button issues is the elimination of the inpatient-only (IPO)...

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