Closing the Knowledge Gap: Essential to Launching Your Bundled Payment Program

Bundled payments are the fastest growing payment type within healthcare organizations, showing a 6% projected growth rate over the next five years. These forecast estimates bundled payments will have a 17% share of all medical payment types by 2022. Bundled payment programs offer physicians and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) significant opportunities for cost savings and…

Economics Drive Healthcare Toward TJR in the ASC

Final installment on state-of-the-art Oregon Surgical Institute’s first year success Rapid change in the healthcare industry is creating both challenges and opportunities for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders, and the surgeon-partners at Oregon Surgical Institute (OSI) are no exception. Dr. Jim Ballard and Dr. Chris Nanson were instrumental in conceptualizing and creating OSI, which opened…