Program Preview
From Policy to Practice: OVBC 2027 Program Preview
OVBC 2027 is a two-day working program focused on orthopedic episode accountability, TEAM implementation, payer-provider alignment, technology value, ASC strategy, anesthesia capacity, and the metrics that determine whether orthopedic value-based care succeeds.
Annual OVBC 500+
Attendees 2
Program Days 25+
Faculty & Speakers Oct 1
Registration Opens
Preliminary 2027 Program Preview
The full time-by-time OVBC 2027 agenda will be released with registration. The preview below reflects the current program architecture and selected planned sessions.
Program at a Glance
Two days organized around execution
The meeting moves from framework and problem definition on Friday to deal-making, execution, technology value, ASC strategy, and implementation on Saturday.
Friday, April 2, 2027
Framework + Problem Definition
Friday focuses on the forces reshaping orthopedic value-based care: mandatory episode accountability, ownership of the orthopedic episode, TEAM hospital execution, anesthesia and perioperative capacity, contracting, technology value, and operational failure points.
Opening Remarks: OVBC 1-1-1 Takeaway
One change. One metric. One owner.
Can Industry, Hospitals, and Quality Leaders Actually Agree on Value?
A cross-stakeholder fireside chat on value, evidence, quality, operations, and commercial reality.
From Reactive Surgery to Proactive MSK Management
The operating model for orthopedic value-based care.
Who Owns the Orthopedic Episode?
Surgeons, hospitals, payers, or employers? A stakeholder debate with audience vote.
Inside a TEAM Hospital
Surgery, anesthesia, and operations redesign the orthopedic episode.
When the Bundle Breaks
Execution failures across the orthopedic episode, diagnosed live.
Anesthesia Is the Bottleneck
OR access, ASC growth, perioperative capacity, and orthopedic episode performance.
Contract Fishbowl
The terms that make or break orthopedic value-based care.
Saturday, April 3, 2027
Deal-Making + Execution
Saturday moves from problem definition to implementation: payer-provider alignment, implant and GPO contracting, independent orthopedic group strategy, ASC decision-making, technology adoption, risk-tiered pathways, AI, and the metrics programs must track weekly.
Turning Payers Into Allies
What orthopedic groups can learn from the Rothman–Blue Cross model.
Deal-Making Simulation: Implant and GPO Contracting Under Episode Risk
Supply chain, GPO, surgeon innovation, and industry leaders negotiate implant value under TEAM/CJR-X.
Outside the Hospital Walls
How independent orthopedic groups are taking the lead in value-based care.
The Risk-Tiered Orthopedic Pathway
Optimize, defer, or proceed?
Orthopedic Value Trial
Use it, buy it, or restrict it?
Hospital-Killer or Hospital-Lifeline?
The orthopedic ASC decision and its implications for hospitals, surgeons, patients, and episode economics.
AI at the Point of Orthopedic & Perioperative Care
Practical questions around AI, workflow, clinical decision support, and episode performance.
Signature OVBC 2027 Formats
Not a passive lecture meeting
Several plenary and track sessions use structured formats designed to expose tradeoffs, test decisions, and produce practical implementation takeaways.
Stakeholder Debate
Who owns the orthopedic episode?
A structured debate with audience voting around the central accountability question: where should ownership sit?
Reverse Grand Rounds
When the Bundle Breaks
Real orthopedic value failures are diagnosed live. Each case ends with the root cause, the operational fix, and the metric to track next.
Contract Fishbowl
Terms Under Fire
A live contract simulation testing the terms that make orthopedic value-based care signable: risk corridors, stop-loss, quality gates, attribution, implant carve-outs, gainsharing, and legal guardrails.
Deal-Making Simulation
Implant and GPO Contracting
A live negotiation under episode risk, bringing together supply chain, GPO, surgeon innovation, and industry perspectives.
Orthopedic Value Trial
Use it, buy it, or restrict it?
Clinical, supply-chain, GPO, and technology leaders decide whether a new orthopedic technology should be used, purchased, restricted, or rejected.
OVBC 1-1-1 Takeaway
One change. One metric. One owner.
Each major session pushes toward a practical implementation decision, not just discussion.
Afternoon Tracks
Focused sessions for clinical, operational, financial, and contracting work
Afternoon tracks move from plenary-level strategy into the practical mechanics of orthopedic value-based care.
Clinical Pathways & Episode Reliability
Clinical and perioperative workflows that determine episode performance: standardization, discharge reliability, post-acute use, complications, readmissions, PROMs, and recovery.
- Making PROMs Clinically Useful, Not Just Reportable
- Home Health Versus SNF: Building a Discharge Decision Algorithm
- Same-Day Discharge Under TEAM: When It Creates Value and When It Backfires
TEAM Operations, Data & Value Infrastructure
The operating system required for orthopedic VBC: TEAM implementation, data infrastructure, device evidence, gainsharing, variation reduction, dashboards, and weekly review.
- TEAM Year Two and CJR-X
- Gainsharing Model Design: Metrics, Guardrails, and Legal Review
- The First 100 Days of TEAM Implementation
Financial Risk, Contracting & Market Strategy
Economics, contracting, market position, ASC strategy, physician alignment, supply chain, robotics ROI, private equity, MSOs, and payment-model design.
- Robotics ROI Under Episode Accountability
- Physician Compensation Redesign Under VBC
- How to Negotiate Orthopedic VBC Contracts
OVBC 2027 is hosted by ACPM
The American College of Perioperative Medicine brings together leaders across perioperative care, value-based performance, and implementation. OVBC 2027 connects orthopedic surgeons, medical executives, payers, health systems, legal advisors, supply chain leaders, and industry.
Visit ACPM.healthRegistration opens October 1 for OVBC 2027
Join orthopedic chairs, MSK enterprise leaders, hospital executives, ASC leaders, payers, perioperative experts, supply-chain leaders, legal advisors, and industry partners for a focused meeting on orthopedic value-based care implementation.
Registration opens October 1, 2026 View FacultyJoin us at Pendry Newport Beach
OVBC 2027 will take place in Newport Beach, California, in a focused setting designed for conversation, networking, and cross-stakeholder implementation planning.
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Sponsor and industry partner opportunities are available for OVBC 2027. Sponsors can engage through exhibit visibility, sponsor-supported education, networking, and structured interaction with the leaders shaping orthopedic value-based care implementation.
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