Outpatient Spine

Surgeons across the country are beginning to perform outpatient total joint replacements and spine surgery in an ASC. Outpatient procedures are associated with lower infection rates and reduced costs, providing better value to the healthcare system.1

Various forces in the industry — each with their own challenges — are pushing hospitals and spine- and orthopedics-focused ASCs together, but such relationships can be a win for all parties involved, according to a group of panelists at the…

Business aside, the keys to fostering strong, symbiotic relationships between specialty practices and their ASCs include the same basic tenets of any positive relationship.