The paper, published in Annals of Surgery, argued non-urgent surgeries would need to be addressed to ensure patients don’t face poor outcomes once their surgery can be performed.
The three strategies they suggested:
1. Expand operating room schedules and ASC capacity.
2. Grow telemedicine use.
3. Be transparent about surgical billing.
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