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AOC Connect Compensation Reports

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National experts from within the academic orthopaedic community provide point-of-view commentary on a wide range of topics. Only AOC Connect provides this data analysis that cuts across academic departments for a deep dive of reporting national averages and benchmark establishment for:

  • academic surgeon compensation
  • starting salary offers for new hires
  • clinical productivity
  • endowment
  • podiatric, primary care, physiatrist and PA productivity and pay
  • administrator compensation
AOC Connect Academic Faculty Compensation Benchmark report
2021 Report Academic Faculty Compensation & Clinical Productivity Report
AOC Connect CAO & Clinical Ops Manager Compensation Benchmark Report
2019 Report CAO & Clinical Operations Manager Compensation Report
An AOC Connect Compensation benchmark report
2018 Compensation Report
AOC Connect GME Fellows compensation benchmark report
2016 GME Fellows Issue
AOC Connect Leadership Compensation Benchmark Report
2016 CAO Compensation Report
AOC Connect CAO Compensation Benchmark report
2015 Leadership Issue
AOC Connect compensation benchmark report
2015 Compensation Report
AOC Connect 2013 Compensation Benchmark report
2013 Benchmark Issue
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AOC Connect Best Practice Presentations from Academic Leaders across the U.S.

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Don’t reinvent the wheel…elevate your performance instead! Take a look at these incredible presentations that were shared at our award winning national meetings from Academic Leaders across the U.S.

  • Value Based Reimbursement and Cost Containment Strategies
  • Coding Errors That Cost You Money
  • The Journey from Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Payments
  • CJR Bundled Care and Value Based Care
  • AOC CJR-EOC Presentation
  • 2015 Duke: ICD-10
  • Making Sense of Shifts to Value-Based Payments and Bundling
  • Predictive Patient Targeting
  • Practice Transformation: Leveraging IT to Improve Clinical Operations for our Patients and our Team
  • 2022 AOC Conference: Managing the Growth of the Clinical Enterprise
  • Medicom Health Assessments
  • Meet the NATA: Health Care for Life and Sport
  • Optimizing Marketing ROI To Drive Clinical Enterprise Growth
  • Perioperative Workflow Efficiency Models
  • Provider Optimization
  • Duke Ortho Action Plan to Improve PRO Collection
  • 2 AOC Department Approaches…Logistical Management of Ramping Back Up for Return to Business
  • Managing Clinic Operations During COVID… For a Different Kind of Masked Superhero
  • 5 Tactics to Save Ortho Surgeons 60 Minutes per Clinic Day
  • How We Became a Walmart Center Of Excellence
  • Musculoskeletal Institute Models across the AOC
  • Sg2 Orthopedics: The Next 5 Years
  • Community Affiliations – UNC
  • Duke Ortho Bones Implementation
  • How We Became a Walmart Center Of Excellence
  • Managing Wait Times
  • Musculoskeletal Institute Models across the AOC
  • Sg2 Orthopedics: The Next 5 Years
  • 5 Tactics to Save Ortho Surgeons 60 Minutes per Clinic Day
  • Access and Rapid Cycle Business Development
  • Getting Your Health System to Invest in your Clinical Enterprise Vision
  • MSKR Business and Clinical Trends
  • How to Know When It’s Time to Grow Your Clinical Enterprise
  • Improving Perioperative Efficiency
  • MSK Service Line
  • Best Practice or Efficiency Pilot
  • Improving Clinic Experience and Quality of Life for MDs on Epic
  • Musculoskeletal Service Line Strategy at Penn
  • 2015 Northwestern: Patient Education Material
  • 2015 Duke University: US News & World Reports
  • 2015 University of Utah: Telehealth
  • 2015 University of Wisconsin: Patient Reported Outcomes
  • EOA 2013 Increasing Practice Productivity
  • Improving the Patient Clinic Experience
  • Marketing Your Department
  • DME Best Practices Fireside Chat
  • Using Data to Drive your Success
  • 2022 December DME Webinar
  • Implementing a Cash Pay Cold Therapy DME Program
  • Use of Cold Compression Therapy in My Practice
  • BREG Introduction
  • Maintaining Success: DMEPOS Industry Update and Panel Discussion
  • Duke Orthopaedics DME Program
  • Implementing a DMEPOS Service Line
  • Funding Academic Mission with Imaging and Xray Ancillary
  • 2015 Washington University: DME
  • 2015 Breg
  • 2015 Northwestern: EOS
  • O&P/DME Models
  • Managing the Educational Mission Part 1
  • Managing the Educational Mission Part 2
  • Managing the Educational Mission Part 3
  • Epic Ortho Steering Board Who We Are, Where We’ve Been, & Where We Are Going??!!
  • Epic Users Forum
  • Discussion APP Comp, Staff Models, Imaging
  • Navigating Academic Orthopaedic Department Funds Flow
  • The Evolution of Funds Flow
  • An Approach to Academic Compensation Plan Development
  • Negotiating Funds Flow
  • Formuliac Compensation Models for Midlevels
  • 2015 University of Arkansas: Faculty Compensation
  • 2015 Duke University: Formulaic Compensation Plan
  • 2015 Medical Center of South Carolina: Margin Improvements
  • Final Academic Orthopaedic Consortium 2013
  • 2012 Academic Orthopaedic Consortium Benchmark
  • Academic Orthopaedic Consortium 2011
  • Cognitive FitnessAutonomic Down Regulation
  • Culture- What Is It–Why Does Leadership Matter
  • Division Chief and Vice Chair Roles: Why, How, How Long?
  • Leadership and the Power of Team
  • Leadership During Stressful Times
  • Our Path Forward
  • Things To Consider When Your Department Feels Like Game of Thrones
  • Transforming Culture Developing an Orthopaedic Department for the Future
  • Actual Detailed Job Description for Division Chief
  • How to Create a culture of Quality, Collaboration, Innovation, Pride, Leadership, and Connectedness
  • Using Strategic Planning to Drive Performance
  • AOC Women’s Leadership Forum
  • AOC Leadership and Change
  • 2020 Business & Leadership Symposium for Surgeons
  • On Leadership and Learning
  • Driving to the Goal – If You Want it, Go Get it
  • The 5 Most Important Deliverables in Your Job as Chair
  • Conflict of Interest and Implicit Bias: How It Impacts Patient Care, Research and Teaching
  • Division Chief Job Description and Responsibilities
  • Lessons Learned and Not Forgotten
  • Walking the Tightrope – Thoughts on Aligning Surgeons and Administration
  • Understanding Physician Well-Being: The Burnout Epidemic
  • Understanding Physician Well-Being and Ways We Can Improve This
  • Essential Components of the Chair Package in 2018
  • Diversity in Your Department
  • Leadership Thinking
  • The 5 Most Important Lessons I Have Learned as a Leader
  • Surviving & Thriving a Change in Chairs
  • Orthopaedic Search Recruitment Process
  • AOC’s Mission To Mitigate the Opioid Crisis
  • Opioids in Orthopaedic Surgery (2019)
  • Opioids in Orthopaedic Surgery (2018)
  • How to Optimize Division Chief Performance
  • Key Practices for Interviewing and Selecting the Right Leaders 2021
  • Key Practices for Interviewing and Selecting the Right Leaders 2020
  • Optimizing the Athletic Trainer: Best Practices and New Developments
  • Optimizing Staffing for Comprehensive Orthopaedic Care
  • Data Driven Performance Evaluations
  • Improving Your Own Productivity
  • The CAO Role and Managing Accountability among Your Team
  • Happiness
  • 2014 AOC Surgeon Staffing Presentation
  • Grant-Writing 101: The Unwritten Rules That Get Your Grant Funded (or Rejected)
  • Best Practice Approaches for Establishing and Growing Your Research Infrastructure – Farshid Guilak
  • Best Practice Approaches for Establishing and Growing Your Research Infrastructure – Susan Bukata
  • Funding a research lab: “What happened to all my money?”
  • I Was Trained How To Do Everything but Run a Lab!
  • Research Enterprise Overview
  • Building a Culture of Research: Recommended Practices
  • Nature vs Nurture: The Critical Role of the Environment in Orthopaedic Research
  • Approach To Recruiting Research Faculty
  • Legal Do’s & Don’ts of Employment Contracts
  • Private Practice versus Academics versus Privademics
  • Balancing Research and Clinical Productivity
  • Work-Life Balance: Is it Possible?
  • Preparing your Residents for the Business of Orthopaedic Practice
  • Understanding, Managing, and Optimizing the Key Performance Indicators that Drive a Successful Orthopaedic Practice
  • What to Expect in Your 1st Year of Ortho Practice
  • The Digital Transformation of MSK
  • Digital Health Platforms Committee
  • Using Predictive Analytics to Optimize your Clinical Enterprise
  • AI? Oh My! The Promise of New Technologies and Their Potential Impact to Patient Care
  • SocialClimb: Marketing Automation Enables Any Practice to Compete and Win
  • Automated Patient Acquisition
  • How AI and Digital Health is Impacting the Way We Think About the Care We Deliver
  • Improving Your Faculty and Departmental Reputation Scores in the Digital World
  • SocialClimb – Automated Patient Acquisition
  • Dr. Pilson Interview
  • Conflict Resolution with Tamara Furman
  • Five Questions with Mary O’Connor, MD
  • Kellie Leitch, MD – Interim Chair at Mississippi:  “It Starts With One”
  • Building Teams with Cecelia Moore, Chief Operating Officer, Vanderbilt University

Business & Leadership Symposium Presentations

  • The Athletic Training Workforce and Academic Orthopedic Programs
  • The Business of Orthopaedic Research
  • Clinic Operations Transformation
  • Epic Users Group Forum Annual Symposium 2023
  • Executive Leadership Roundup across MedTech and Beyond
  • The Evolution of (to) the ASC
  • Faculty Morale Job Satisfaction
  • Funds Flow and Compensation Plans
  • Funds Flow in Academic Orthopedic Surgery
  • The Healthcare Marketing Platform
  • It’s All About Funds Flow
  • OREF: Your Organization
  • Orthopaedic Funds Flow and Sustainability
  • Orthopedics Measurement
  • Orthopaedic Research Society – AOC Connect
  • PANEL: DME Strategies to Improve Patient Care & Solidify Margin
  • Terminology Matters Moral Injury Not Burnout?
  • Three Most Important Businesss Decisions I Made as a Chair and One Decision I Wish I Hadn’t Made
  • University of Rochester Musculoskeletal Service Line Development
  • Update on AOC to Help Mitigate Opioid Footprint
  • Words of Wisdom?
  • 2022 AOC Conference: Managing the Growth of the Clinical Enterprise
  • A Vital, Inclusive Health Ecosystem
  • AOC’s Mission To Mitigate the Opioid Crisis
  • Best Practice Approaches for Establishing and Growing Your Research Infrastructure – Farshid Guilak
  • Best Practice Approaches for Establishing and Growing Your Research Infrastructure – Susan Bukata
  • Cognitive FitnessAutonomic Down Regulation
  • Culture- What Is It–Why Does Leadership Matter
  • Digital Health Platforms Committee
  • Discussion APP Comp, Staff Models, Imaging
  • Division Chief and Vice Chair Roles: Why, How, How Long?
  • Epic Ortho Steering Board Who We Are, Where We’ve Been, & Where We Are Going??!!
  • Epic Users Forum
  • Executive Leadership Roundup: The Evolving Musculoskeletal Landscape
  • Implementing a Cash Pay Cold Therapy DME Program
  • Leadership and the Power of Team
  • Leadership During Stressful Times
  • Medicom Health Assessments
  • Meet the NATA: Health Care for Life and Sport
  • Optimizing Marketing ROI To Drive Clinical Enterprise Growth
  • Our Path Forward
  • Perioperative Workflow Efficiency Models
  • Provider Optimization
  • Things To Consider When Your Department Feels Like Game of Thrones
  • Transforming Culture Developing an Orthopaedic Department for the Future
  • Use of Cold Compression Therapy in My Practice