Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2024
Outpatient spine surgery’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years.
Here’s how three leaders are using outpatient spine to help their facilities grow:
Michael Burdi, MD. Partner at Community Orthopedic Medical Group (Mission Viejo, Calif.): With more spine fusion cases and total joints being done outpatient, our ASC is poised for a 10% increase in cases over the next year. Our ASC has also done robotic total joint procedures and trialed or acquired multiple total joint robots in the last two years. Our biggest limitation at this time is scheduling time and space, so we are looking into options to increase operating hours.
Choll Kim, MD, PhD. Orthopedic Spine Surgeon at Excel Spine (San Diego): My outpatient surgery practice will...