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Office-based procedures have a proven track record of safety and myriad benefits for urologists, patients, and payers alike.

Office-based procedures are growing in popularity as a way for independent practices to grow. So what are the benefits and key considerations physicians must make to safely bring procedures into their own space?

Armed with a commonsense approach to lowering healthcare costs, anesthesiologist Dr. Marlon Michel is safely, conveniently, and comfortable helping dentists shift their sites-of-service.

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,...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) have been a major component of the push towards value-based care in the US healthcare system. The Scope spoke with Bill Prentice, J.D., CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, a trade non-profit that assists ASCs in delivering safe, high-quality, cost-effective patient care. Prentice outlines below his vision for further value-based...

Decreases in reimbursements, unpredictable schedules, inefficiencies, patient inconvenience; these are a few of the many reasons physicians are moving procedures out of HOPDs and ASCs and into their own clinic-based and in-office surgical suites. Advances in surgical technology and methods along with the buzz created throughout the healthcare community about the benefits of this option...