Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and data to safely shift high-value cases out of hospitals. The question is…
Author: Allie Woldenberg
The Affordable Care Act reshaped the health care landscape, expanding coverage while accelerating consolidation, administrative oversight, and complex benefit design. Neurosurgeons and their patients now live with the downstream consequences: delayed access, rising out-of-pocket costs, and pervasive burnout. Neurosurgical ASCs…
Elective neurosurgery has quietly crossed a threshold: advances in minimally invasive techniques, anesthesia, and perioperative care have made a set of historically “inpatient” spine and neurovascular procedures both safe and efficient in ASCs. Organizations that proactively redesign site-of-care strategy around…
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has released a new pain management ambulatory surgery care toolkit, a resource designed to help healthcare professionals address safe and effective pain control, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The tool…