Since 2024, Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Surgery Centers has added several new physicians, struck new partnerships and continued to grow nationwide.
DISC Sports and Spine Center specializes in outpatient, minimally invasive spine procedures and advanced arthroscopic techniques.
Here are eight key ways the center has pursued growth over the past year:
1. DISC Surgery Center is capitalizing on its growth and envisioning a multistate expansion, founder Robert Bray, MD, told Becker’s.
“We’re expanding in the states somewhat guided by the insurance companies we work with on contracting because they have places they would like to see us expand,” Dr. Bray said. “We’re looking at options in a variety of states, not only the South. The reason we’re considering Florida is specific. It’s the same reason that it works [in California], which is there are a lot of physicians that do not want to be an employee of a major group but rather wish to maintain their autonomy.”
DISC is already in active negotiations in two states.
2. DISC Surgery Center at Carlsbad (Calif.) partnered with Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., for spine and orthopedic care. The hospital is a strategic equity partner in the ASC, which is within the Tri-City Medical Center Health & Wellness Complex. DISC and Tri-City Medical Center are co-developing a spine and orthopedic program.
3. DISC Surgery Centers plans to open an ASC in Tarzana, Calif., in the third quarter of 2025. The ASC will be part of a two-story, 19,936-square-foot medical building, according to an April 8 news release. A full-service spine and orthopedic clinic will be located on the second floor.
4. DISC Surgery Center plans to open its first Florida ASC in West Palm Beach later in 2025.
5. DISC Surgery Center is also opening a 12,000-square-foot outpatient spine surgery, orthopedics and pain management facility in Carlsbad, Calif. The ASC will house three operating rooms and will be located near DISC’s full-service facility.
6. According to a report from DISC’s parent company, TriasMD, by 2028, 88% of spinal decompressions and laminectomies and 67% of cervical spinal fusions are expected to be performed in an outpatient setting.
7. By the end of 2024, DISC Surgery Center at Thousand Oaks (Calif.) added 10 spine and orthopedic surgeons to its medical team.
8. In November 2024, five physicians joined DISC Surgery Center’s Los Angeles county location and three physicians joined DISC Surgery Center’s Orange county location.
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