The American Society of Osteoporosis Providers
Building the workforce and infrastructure bone health has never had.
Osteoporosis costs the U.S. healthcare system $70–95 billion annually. Fewer than 30% of patients who experience a fragility fracture receive treatment for the underlying disease within six months of that event.
The field has validated risk tools, effective medications, and a growing body of evidence.
What it has never had is a trained, scalable workforce and operational infrastructure to put that evidence into practice. consistently, across every care setting, before the fracture occurs.
That is what ASOP is building.
Our Mission And Vision
ASOP builds the workforce pipeline and infrastructure to recognize, support, and manage bone health risk across the lifespan.
A healthcare system where a sustainable workforce consistently recognizes, supports, and manages bone health risk across the lifespan.
The American Society of Osteoporosis Providers is organized as a 501(c)(3) USA Corporation
What we’re Building
Knowledge & Training
A structured, credential-bearing curriculum for every provider who encounters bone health risk — physicians, APPs, orthopedic teams, primary care, rheumatology, hospitalists, and women's health
Designed to close the foundational gap clinical training left behind, at every credential level and specialty
Certification & Standards
A first-of-its-kind bone health certification, pursuing ISO 17024 accreditation
A shared clinical standard meaningful across specialties and credential levels
Goal: 7,000+ certified providers within four years of availability
Operational Infrastructure
Institutional ROI tools that make the financial case for bone health programs to administrators
Workflow templates teams can adopt rather than build from scratch
Patient identification systems that surface at-risk patients before a fracture occurs
Where we are now
Curriculum Pilots
Two formal educational pilots completed, with provider feedback driving direct content improvements, confirming the curriculum's real-world clinical relevance.
Live Implementation
First real-world implementation underway at a major orthopedic practice, rebuilding a struggling bone health program into a sustainable, provider- and specialty-agnostic model
Rare Bone Disease
A first-of-its-kind cross-sectional overview in development, spanning genetics to treatment — designed to give any clinician the foundation to recognize the possibility, conceptualize the clinical picture, and begin moving a patient's workup in the right direction
ICD-10-CM Initiative
In active development, creating the coding infrastructure to systematically identify fragility fractures and intraoperative bone quality findings in claims data for the first time
Bone health has the science.
Now it needs the infrastructure.
Cardiology and diabetes have transitioned from event-triggered care to risk-based prevention. Bone health is at that inflection point now. ASOP is the organization building what that transition requires.
The American Society of Osteoporosis Providers is organized as a 501(c)(3) USA Corporation