With the day-to-day hustle of ASC management, it’s hard to think about projecting growth or overall business strategy. It can be hard for surgery centers to reach their full potential with operational inefficiencies. Plus, as technology continues to change rapidly, so do compliance regulations.
Here are three simple, researched-backed strategies that could make your surgery center more successful.
Strategy 1: Optimize Ambulatory Surgery Center Procedures
The first step to success? Make sure your facility is completely compliant. Following guidelines from the FDA or Medicare helps reduce risk. Failing to follow guidelines could result in fines or significant disruption.
In addition to compliance, software and new technology can be leveraged to automate manual tasks such as scheduling, bill sheets, and postoperative dictation.
Specialize for Better Care and Efficiency
Positive feedback is one of the best tools your surgery center can utilize. When patients have such a top quality of care, they are willing to refer to the facility or leave a good review online, which means patients can almost serve as brand ambassadors for the facility.
By enhancing the quality of care for patients, it can help reduce costs as well. According to 2017 research published in Medical Care Research and Review, “for the majority of ASCs, focus on a specialty was associated with lower facility costs.”
Improve Documentation and Enhance Patient Safety
A well-documented surgery center is a safe surgery center. Because outpatient facilities are responsible for covering readmission rates, it’s important to equip patients with the knowledge and tools for a safe recovery. Furthermore, it’s crucial to take post-operative surveys seriously in order to monitor patient health.
Further reading: PRO-MAPP helps distribute patient surveys to monitor post-operation health.
Strategy 2: Boosting ASC Operational Efficiency
Once compliance standards are met and patient care becomes the facility’s top priority, it can be a good idea to review overall efficiency.
An efficient surgery center can help improve overall profitability as well as increase the caseload.
Further reading: Additional steps to improve orthopedic workflows.
Streamlining Revenue Cycles
Effective billing is one way to aid in patient care while streamlining revenue. In fact, one article from Becker’s ASC stated that increasing surgery center profitability is more important than ever.
PRO-MAPP can aid in the revenue cycle for ASC management by minimizing the time between service and billing. Here is a tutorial on how the software can function as a revenue cycle management tool.
Free download: How to achieve same-day medical billing
Improving Workflow Processes
Another way to continuously improve processes is to identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Anytime there is a clunky or repetitive process, there is probably a solution to create efficiency.
Partner with DME Companies that Specialize in Medical Billing
Partnering with a reliable medical billing company can help improve patient care while helping reduce surgery center costs. At Compression Solutions, we have an experienced medical billing team that can pull digital billing documentation to shorten the time between service and billing.
Solutions: Learn about the Compression Solutions billing services.
Strategy 3: Buying Back Time with Technology
Incorporating new products and practices into ASC management can be difficult. It’s hard to get staff to buy in and change processes. However, some new technology can help buy back time that was spent doing manual tasks.
Reducing Time on Paperwork
Bill sheets are frustrating and time-consuming, but they are necessary to get insurance coverage for important medical devices.
However, bill sheets do not need to take hours to complete each week. Now, billing documentation such as history and physical can be accessed by the billing company if set up correctly.
“The billing form is straightforward and easy to use, and the new billing process has been a game changer for us.” – Kimberly Allen MLS, BSN, RN.
Reducing Time on Dictation
Another process that can make the time between service and billing longer is delays in post-op dictation.
With tools like PRO-MAPP, post-operative dictation can be completed shortly after the surgery, it can also help save on post-op dictation fees.
“With PRO-MAPP we can do automated, customized dictation,” says Keith Berend, MD. “When I leave the OR, the dictation is already done and significantly reduces the days in accounts receivable.”
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When you partner with Compression Solutions, you are choosing to level up your operational efficiency. We are dedicated to helping our customers find a streamlined approach, whether it be in medical billing or utilizing workflow software.
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