At their 2018 AAOS booth, UOC hosted several presentations by U.S. based surgeons—most notably Mark Froimson, M.D., 27th president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and one of the country’s leading experts on bundled payments as Principal at Riverside Health Advisors.
Dr. Froimson served as chief clinical officer and executive vice president of Trinity Health, the Michigan-based hospital system, from November 2014 through May 2017. During his tenure, he led the development and expansion of Trinity’s episode of care and bundled payment initiatives and ultimately positioned them as a model of industry best practice.
Prior to that, he spent 16 years with the Cleveland Clinic, serving in a variety of leadership roles, including vice chair of orthopedics and president and chief executive officer of Euclid Hospital, where he launched the clinic’s bundled payment program.
UOC’s lead booth speaker did not pitch a UOC implant, he delivered, instead, a four-point plan to help hospitals and clinics thrive in an era of bundled payments. He talked about:
- Patient selection and engagement
- Physician leadership and care co-ordination
- Care optimization with protocol development and adherence
- Clinical intelligence
It’s a new era in U.S. healthcare and UOC was dealing with it by giving U.S. physicians the person (Dr. Froimson) and the strategies for navigating this new environment.
The U2 Knee™ System
UOC received its first FDA approval in 2001—which was for a hip implant system. In 2006, the FDA cleared UOC’s U2 Knee™ System for the U.S. market.
This year UOC is deep into the clinical study for the U2 Knee™ System.
The clinical trial, titled “Prospective Post Approval Clinical Follow-Up Study of the Commercially Available U2 Knee™ System – ‘U-Propel Study’,” enrolled its first patient approximately one year ago.
This prospective, single arm, multi-center, post-market study is evaluating the short- and long-term clinical performance, and implant survivorship of the U2 Knee™ System in subjects receiving primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
