Healthcare in the United States has been in an ongoing era of consolidation since the late 1970s with the early growth of conglomerated health systems and accelerating in the mid-1990s with the launch of the “payvider” model, where large scale payers began acquiring health systems, creating a closed loop. The trend continued in the early...
High standards for ambulatory surgery, whether in ASCs or the office, remain the linchpin to successfully resolving a constellation of systemic issues in healthcare. Rising costs, stagnant quality, declining access, and discouraged providers; moving the ball on all of the above remains a dedication to pushing the bounds of excellence in ambulatory settings. Within ASC...
After years of hesitation, payers and large health systems have come around to the astonishing clinical and financial benefits of ambulatory surgery centers. As a result, the market is exploding with repeated announcements of new facilities across the US. But in the long term, what does succeeding as an ambulatory surgery center take? What are...
Healthcare is continuing its slow, but inevitable transformation away from the traditional fee-for-service payment models to value-based care. This shift ensures providers focus on improving outcomes and the quality of care a patient receives rather than volume of cases, while also improving access to care across the board. The question is how can this reach...
Healthcare in the US is demanding more office-based surgical practices. Let's get into how to start (or grow) one, and who can help.
Payers have started to more actively embrace the office-based setting for surgical procedures. The last few years have seen increased incentives to shift procedures from hospitals to ASCs and the office, ramping up the need for effective ambulatory anesthesia partners. New procedures are added to the incentive list regularly, including the most recent additions of...
Today's post is part IV of our ongoing series about moving procedures out of the hospital and into ambulatory surgery center and office-based environments. In this final installment, we cover the updated payment rules and how physician reimbursement is making the dream of a sustainable, care-focused practice a reality for doctors like you.
Reason #1: ADVANCES IN ANESTHESIA AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES The modernization of anesthesia, particularly outsourced anesthesia, has played a clear role in the site of service transition to office-based procedures. The healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The past decade has seen a steady increase in surgical procedures moving away from hospital environments into surgery...
More-and-more, medical procedures are being performed safely, conveniently, and affordably in physician's offices and clinics.
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,...
We’d like to think that the two major drivers of healthcare in the U.S. are ever-advancing science and the needs of individual patients. Of course, this is a rather naïve assumption. The healthcare ecosystem is a tug-of-war between the above, but also the machinations of a byzantine and opaque system of care, the vagaries of...
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