Same-Day Surgery 2011-01-01

Same-Day Surgery offers ideas to save millions

This month, our special focus is on saving money and increasing revenue in outpatient surgery.

While waiting for healthcare reform, managers cut costs, boost revenue

Are you wondering how health care reform is going to impact your outpatient surgery program? Join the crowd.

Clinicians put brakes on lost charges

By getting financial staff to understand the clinician's point of view and finding a way to work together, Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA, has been able to capture millions in additional revenue, including $10 million just from the operating rooms.

3-part philosophy cuts OT and costs

Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, NJ, has used a three-part philosophy process to achieve significant savings, including a drastic reduction in overtime for preop nurses and a $10,000 savings in an equipment purchase.

Inventory control overhaul saves $1 million a year

As part of a hospitalwide focus on improvement, the surgical services department at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) in St. Louis, MO, began looking into its supply-chain processes. And it wasn't pretty.

Same-Day Surgery Manager: Generate new income by cutting your costs

Want to make more money next month? Look at your "variable costs" this month! Many professionals tend to overlook the amount of revenue that is generated by simply not spending money. The treasure chest lies within your own grasp.

Strategies to cut time for spinal injections

The first study of low back injection for pain management by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), found eight common factors among organizations with shortest procedure times:

Joint Commission launches new web site

Same-Day Surgery – January 1, 2011

January 1, 2011