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.
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…
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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…
Data Series Part 3: Healthcare KPI Pitfalls and Measuring Useful Results
Once you have established key performance indicators (KPIs) that are measurable, influenceable, and have found that they align with a practice’s overall goals, the work really begins. After all, what good is data if you’re not going to use it? In order to determine how to actually use these healthcare KPIs that you have established,…
Low Cost, High Quality ASCs and Offices are the “Best Fit” Future for Millions of Americans.
As recently as 10 years ago, the growth and adoption of ambulatory surgery centers and surgical offices was a revolutionary idea. Despite a 60 year history in the US, the idea of lower cost, high quality outpatient surgery in non-hospital sites of service was somewhere between invisible or outright taboo, particularly with payers. Having a…
Data Series Part 2: Identifying healthcare business KPIs to grow Physician-Owned Practices.
Let’s start with the basics. Welcome to part 2 of our data series! (You can catch up on part one here.) Everyone loves to talk about “data,” but you’d be surprised how many decision makers lack a data analyst to take the time to make it useful or useable. Today, our starting point is identifying…
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PCCI’s Steve Miff on healthcare data and technology
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation CEO Steve Miff joins us to discuss how healthcare data and tech can drive transformation.
KP Georgia’s Dr. Kate Koplan on population health
Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Kate Koplan joins us to discuss her work in the field of population health and the importance of physician leadership.
Carrie Nixon on advising healthcare innovators
Carrie Nixon (Nixon Gwilt Law) joins us to discuss advising healthcare innovators, mistakes they make, and the future of the industry.
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…