Changing the Way We Operate
Moving the medical industry forward through education around the safety and advantages of in-office and clinic-based surgical suites.

Beyond ASCs: How Office-Based Surgical Suites Can Drive Economic Stimulus
As consumer debt levels groan under the weight of swollen healthcare costs, ideas to remediate the problem and pull us back from an inevitable spending crisis flourish. Among them, the idea to move many procedures away from costly HOPDs and into ASCs has gained significant traction and with good reason. ASCs offer an affordable, safe,…
Roy Bejarano on the Future of Healthcare and Emerging Value-Based Care Models
On this episode of The Scope, we are talking with Roy Bejarano. Roy is the Co-Founder and CEO of SCALE Healthcare, a healthcare consulting group that focuses on optimizing management teams for growth and sustainability. In this role, Roy is particularly focused on Management Service Organizations (MSO) and practice level operations as well as broad…
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Mark Gridley on Differentiating Patient Care
On this episode of The Scope, we are joined by Mark Gridley. Mark has over thirty years of healthcare experience, including being an Administrator and Market Executive with Aurora Medical Group before moving on to FHN Memorial Hospital where he was the Vice President of Physician Affairs and then Chief Operating Officer. He is currently…
Chris O’Connell on Transforming Healthcare through Innovation
On this episode of The Scope, we’re talking with Chris O’Connell. Chris is a Senior Advisor at New Mountain Capital and the Executive Chairman at Covaris, a leader in advanced biomolecule extraction technology. Because of Chris’s direct experience with the changing healthcare landscape, he remains passionate about innovation in healthcare to enable patients to get…
Roy Bejarano on the Future of Healthcare and Emerging Value-Based Care Models
On this episode of The Scope, we are talking with Roy Bejarano. Roy is the Co-Founder and CEO of SCALE Healthcare, a healthcare consulting group that focuses on optimizing management teams for growth and sustainability. In this role, Roy is particularly focused on Management Service Organizations (MSO) and practice level operations as well as broad…
Q&A with Dr. Tara Troy: In-Office Procedures and My Practice
Recently, we sat down with Dr. Troy to discuss the realities, considerations, and advantages of bringing procedures in-office.
What Procedures are Physicians Performing In-Office?
One could make the argument that physician’s offices and clinics have always seen, to varying degrees, procedures performed therein. But in terms of modern medicine, surgeries and other procedures have taken place in office and clinic-based surgical suites since the 1970s, and with increasing regularity since the 1980s. Today, tens of millions of procedures are…
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Beyond ASCs: How Office-Based Surgical Suites Can Drive Economic Stimulus
As consumer debt levels groan under the weight of swollen healthcare costs, ideas to remediate the problem and pull us back from an inevitable spending crisis flourish. Among them, the idea to move many procedures away from costly HOPDs and into ASCs has gained significant traction and with good reason. ASCs offer an affordable, safe,…
Dr. Raju Ghate says efficiency and focus are key to value-based care
Dr. Raju Ghate is one of the most respected Orthopedic Surgeons in Illinois. After his successful private practice was acquired, he joined NorthShore Medical Group at the NorthShore Skokie Hospital. That facility recently transitioned into the Orthopaedic and Spine Institute, an innovative and highly-specialized hospital. Dr. Ghate recently joined us via phone to discuss the…
SonarMD COO Beth Houck on Technology’s Role in Value-Based Care
Smart devices continue to evolve how we interface with our world. In few places is that more profoundly felt than in healthcare, where communication with providers and access to information is now at our fingertips on-demand. SonarMD is a virtual, personalized tool designed to assist those with Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis track and monitor their…
Value-Based Care Companies Who Do VBC the Right Way
Value-based care is an approach to healthcare that aims to improve the quality of care and outcomes, reduce costs, and boost overall population health. But since “value-based care” is often bandied about as a buzzword to entice and comfort patients without really being implemented, we’re shining a spotlight on a few value-based care companies who…
MGMA’s Andrew Swanson on Innovation in Healthcare
Andrew Swanson provides us with his perspective on how COVID has shaped the healthcare landscape, who is driving innovation in the field, and why value-based care puts the patient in control of their health.
How Will Sites of Service Evolve in the Next 5-10 years?
In 1970, two physicians bucked tradition and opened a facility offering their patients a safe, convenient, and comfortable setting for relatively simple procedures that didn’t require an overnight stay. Eschewing the expensive rigmarole attached to performing procedures in hospital operating rooms, they transformed healthcare by creating the world’s first ambulatory surgery center, moving the surgical…