Typically, Blue Chip holds minority ownership stakes in its affiliated ASCs and serves as managing partner, with responsibility for financial, payor, legal and operational matters, which allows surgeon-partners to focus on patients and clinical matters.
Company leadership includes Jeff Leland, founder and CEO; Jay Rom, president and CFO; Kathleen Whitlow, chief operations officer; and Chris Bishop, senior vice president, acquisitions and business development.
Blue Chip focuses on building strong partnerships with its surgeon-partners. Blue Chip offers expertise in spine-focused ASCs, the addition of spine to multi-specialty ASCs, turnarounds of underperforming ASCs and joint ventures with hospitals and health systems.
“We launched Blue Chip Surgical five years ago with the plan to build an organization which quickly builds trust with our partners; our view is surgeons make excellent business decisions when the surgeons trust their partners,” says Mr. Leland. “Further, future success of ASCs will depend upon the ability to contract effectively — hence, our founding team includes those with extensive health plan/payor contracting experience. Blue Chip Surgical differentiates itself from others by creating spine-focused surgery centers; Blue Chip Surgical likely has more experience creating spine-focused surgery centers than any other ASC management company.” www.bluechipsurgical.com
