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.

Blog

Anesthesiologists Are Essential to Patient Safety

With the growth of ambulatory surgery, there are increased efforts to meet demand. One approach has been changing requirements on physician-anesthesiologists in the OR, including two bills up for consideration in Illinois, both removing the requirements for direct anesthesiologist supervision of CRNAs or other providers when delivering anesthesia (1 and 2). While CRNAs are an…

Anesthesia and Value-Based Care: From surviving to thriving.

Portions of this piece on anesthesia and value-based care were originally published by Scope partner practice Mobile Anesthesiologists in Becker’s ASC review. It has been updated to reflect policy changes by CMS and changing landscape of non-hospital surgical care. While the backbone of value-based care is primary care and preventative medicine, inevitably surgical intervention is…

Scope Practice Spotlight: Mobile Anesthesiologists

The Competitive Advantage: The Mobile Way From the perspective of Chicago’s Mobile Anesthesiologists, the accelerating tailwinds of payers, patients, value-based care, and COVID-19 have had a positive impact on the physician office space over the past two years. In this post-COVID world, we will continue to see patients look for alternatives to hospitals and ASCs…

The Scope Podcast

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…