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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 103-B, Issue SUPP_1 | Pages 31 - 31
1 Feb 2021
LIMITED INDUSTRY PAYMENTS AMONG APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA (AUC) VOTING PANELS: AN OPEN PAYMENTS ANALYSIS
Acuña A Jella T Barksdale E Samuel L Kamath A
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Introduction

Although multiple studies have consistently demonstrated that orthopaedic surgeons receive greater transfers of value than other specialties, the industry payments of providers involved in practice guideline formation have not been explored. Therefore, the purpose of our analysis was to evaluate the industry payments among authors of the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

Methods

The publicly available web portal (OrthoGuidelines.org) from the AAOS was queried for all AUCs released over the past decade for the management of musculoskeletal pathologies. For each AUC available through this portal, information related to the AUC and its respective voting members were recorded. We used this information to conduct a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the CMS Open Payments Database. This information was utilized to determine the number of total value of industry payments to AUC voting committee members during the year of voting for AUC criteria. The total amount of industry payment to AUC voting members was calculated, per each AUC, annually, as well as per orthopaedic subspecialty. The average total industry payment per voting member was calculated for each AUC and compared with the average total industry payment per orthopaedic surgeon nationally, in the same year. All descriptive data analyses were performed in Microsoft Excel 2016 (MicrosoftCorp).