American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons × Techy Surgeon
The CJR-X Readiness Program

Every hip and knee episode is about to change. Be ready.

CJR-X — the mandatory national joint replacement payment model — was finalized August 4, 2026. This is the independent education hub preparing AAHKS members for it.

End of 2026Participant list posts
Apr 1, 2027Quality window opens
Jan 1, 2028Performance year one
Start here

Three minutes to your first answer.

Built for the surgeon between cases: look something up, see where you stand, get back to the room.

The content library

Two tracks. One goal: surgeons who lead this transition.

Video explainers, white papers, webinar episodes and hands-on workflow tutorials, produced through the fall and reviewed by the AAHKS evidence-based medicine committee.

Value-based care track

CJR-X & Value-Based Care

The payment model, decoded into practice change.

  • Live nowThe Money Mechanics of CJR-X — quality gate, risk adjustment, gainsharing
  • Live nowGainsharing under CJR-X — the six requirements and the physician playbook
  • ExplainerWhat the final rule changed
  • ExplainerThe 3-day SNF waiver
  • ModulePre-operative flow & PCM billing
  • WebinarCJR-X, Decoded — five-part series
Clinical AI track

Clinical AI for Surgeons

Practical AI workflows for total joint surgeons — set up once, use every day.

  • Live nowOptimize your op note — prompts + verification checklist
  • WorkflowBuild your case log with AI
  • TutorialDoximity AI, well used
  • TutorialOpenEvidence at the point of care
  • WorkflowAmbient documentation that pays for itself

First releases land ahead of the AAHKS Annual Meeting, November 5–8, Dallas.

Welcome to the program

Forty-six seconds on the partnership, the program, and how to use this hub. Narrated by your program director.

Recruiting at the Annual Meeting

The 100 CJR-X Surgeons

One hundred members leading implementation at their own hospitals, reporting back what works. Kickoff: November 5–8, Dallas.

Learn

Short, sourced, readable between cases.

Primers and webinar episodes, every claim cited to the final rule, CMS-1849-F, and reviewed by the AAHKS evidence-based medicine committee.

Live

The money mechanics of CJR-X

The quality gate, risk adjustment, and gainsharing, with the letter that starts the conversation with your administrator.

Read →
Live

Gainsharing under CJR-X

The particulars, the six requirements, who signs, and the seven-move physician playbook for getting to the table before the arrangement is drafted.

Read →
Live

Optimize your op note

Prompts and a verification checklist for getting a defensible operative note out of an ambient scribe.

Read →
Publishing soon

Am I in? Episodes and the low-volume trapdoor

Which hospitals participate, which cases count, and what fewer than 31 baseline episodes means.

Publishing soon

The 3-day SNF waiver, explained

What it permits, the 3-star requirement, and the swing-bed exemption.

Publishing soon

Pre-operative flow & PCM billing

The pre-op optimization pathway, and Principal Care Management as its billing backbone.

AAHKS memberFirst episode late September

CJR-X, Decoded — the webinar series

Five episodes, live on Zoom and posted here afterward with the key-slide PDFs.

Request member access →
Tools

Things you can actually use on Monday.

Look up your hospital, model an arrangement, take the coding card into clinic. Items marked AAHKS member open with the program sign-in.

Live · Interactive

Your hospital's exposure

Look up any hospital: participation status, episode volume, and what the final rule means for its book of joint replacement.

Open the map →
Live · Interactive

The quality score, explained

Five measures, a 20-point composite, and a discount that moves from 2% to zero. See how your numbers translate.

Explore →
Live · Interactive

Ask CJR-X

Every rule, every primer, one question away. Answers cite the final rule text directly. Not billing or legal advice.

Ask a question →
AAHKS memberOctober

The HCC H&P coding card

The one-page card for capturing risk at the history and physical, where the episode's risk adjustment is actually decided.

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AAHKS memberOctober

The gainsharing playbook tool

The interactive companion to the gainsharing primer: model an arrangement against your own case volume.

Request member access →
AAHKS memberOctober

Patient-selection risk template

A structured way to document risk at the decision to operate, defensible against the episode's target price.

Request member access →
AAHKS memberLate 2026

Patient education pack

Pre-op through day 90, brandable with your practice name.

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Member access

For AAHKS members.

Webinar recordings, the tool library and the patient education pack open to AAHKS members. The first webinar lands in late September; add your name and we will send your sign-in link when it does.

Have the program access code?

AAHKS distributes it with the program announcement. Your membership number is optional.

Don't have the code?

Add your details and we will send it, along with the sign-in link when the first webinar posts in late September.

Used only to verify AAHKS membership and send program materials. Not shared with program supporters. Questions: christian@techysurgeon.com.

Educational support provided by
RevelAi Health
The program is funded through educational grants to AAHKS under a multi-supporter model. Supporters do not review or shape content. Meet the supporters · Interested in partnering?
From Techy Surgeon — not part of the AAHKS education program

Beyond the program.