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A primary focus of outpatient surgery managers used to be the bottom line. Now many are finding themselves aiming to succeed at the "triple bottom line": people, planet, and profit, says Ravindra Gupta, MD, hospitalist and co-chair of the Sustainability Committee, Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA.
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Northwest Michigan Surgery Center in Traverse City was able to increase its coffers by that mount by renegotiating insurance contracts and carving out implants for underreimbursed cases. Jim Stilley, FACHE, CASC, CEO at the ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
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Are training funds tight? Free educational material is available online.
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ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, announces the release of its list of top seven technologies for 2010 to pay close attention to now.
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It is never too early to think ahead to potential co-defendant conflicts.
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In this special cost-saving issue, we've talked to outpatient surgery programs around the country to find out their best tips. In our cover package, we tell you how you can be environmentally friendly and save thousands in the process.
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Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, has targeted recycling, with great success. At one hospital alone, Inova Fairfax, recycling saved about $37,000 in 2008, according to Seema Wadhwa, LEED AP, sustainability engineer at Inova.
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Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics has saved more than $14 million by evaluating 20,000 items bought from 6,000 vendors and dozens of standard operating procedures, and much of that savings has come from the hospital's ambulatory surgery facilities.
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(In this first part of a two-part series on innovative care and pricing plans being used for outpatient surgery, we tell you how Geisinger Health System has used a checklist of best practices to save money, plus implemented a price guarantee for members of its health plan. Next month, we'll tell you how another facility has used a price guarantee effectively.)
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Jersey Shore Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Summer's Point, NJ, reduced wasteful supplies and inventory by more than $80,000 in six months by taking a few simple steps that could be replicated by most outpatient surgery programs.
