Orthopedic procedures are moving more to ASCs and outpatient settings, accelerating industry growth.
Moving those surgeries to a surgery center can both improve patient outcomes while reducing costs at the same time, making orthopedics a specialty to watch when it comes to the ASC space.
Brett Shore, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon as well as president and CEO of Shore Orthopedics. He recently joined the Becker’s Ambulatory Surgery Centers Podcast to share insights into the future of orthopedic surgeries within outpatient care.
Note: Responses were lightly edited for clarity and length.
Question: As outpatient care continues to grow, how do you see the role of orthopedics evolving within the broader healthcare ecosystem?
Dr. Brett Shore: Orthopedics lends itself nicely to outpatient care in general. There are surgeries that are high risk and that have high capacity for blood loss. One of them that I perform is the periacetabular osteotomy, which is an operation that technically could be done in a surgery center with a 23 hour OBS. But there’s not going to be a big push for that, because most of those patients have a lot of pain and stay overnight. As minimally invasive surgery becomes more widespread and as we’re able to use products such as tranexamic acid to reduce blood loss, orthopedics is in some ways, going to be a leader and a pioneer in bringing the majority of surgeries into the ambulatory setting. Both as a way to improve patient outcomes, but also to reduce healthcare costs that are associated with inpatient stays.
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