Listen to a Becker’s Healthcare Podcast for a Conversation About Outpatient Ortho Opportunities

Scott Becker interviewed Regent CEO Chris Bishop and Jim Ballard, MD, surgeon partner at Oregon Surgical Institute  for a recent episode for Becker’s Healthcare Podcast. Bishop and Ballard talked about immediate and long-term opportunities in outpatient orthopedics and spine as well as mitigating concerns around COVID-19. Listen to the full interviews here, part one and part two.

Keys to Case Profitability

This content was written by Regent RCM’s Vice President of Revenue Cycle Erin Petrie and was published in ASC Focus’s August 2020 issue. Please see the original content here. As the cost of delivering healthcare continues to rise, ASC reimbursement is getting tighter, necessitating even closer cost monitoring and a proactive stance on payer contracts…

Total Shoulder Replacement Success Launches Outpatient TJR Program at Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee Surgery Center

Surgeons at Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee Surgery Center completed the first total shoulder replacement procedure recently, kicking off a comprehensive total joint replacement (TJR) program that will also include knee and hip replacement procedures. The successful shoulder replacement surgery was completed by orthopaedic surgeon Ian Byram, M.D., who specializes in shoulders, elbows, and…

Three Steps to an Effective HOPD Conversion

As healthcare reimbursement policies continue to shift, hospitals are re-thinking how to deliver the best quality care while improving the bottom line. In a reversal from previous practices, they have begun to convert hospital outpatient departments (HOPD) to ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) in order to reap the advantages associated with HOPD to ASC conversion. The…

Lessons Learned on Outpatient TJR Experience

With over a year in operation as the pacific northwest’s first surgery center dedicated specifically to total joint replacement (TJR) and other complex orthopedic procedures, the surgeon-owners at Oregon Surgical Institute (OSI) have honed many new processes. These practices are related to patient experience and patient selection, accompanied by a common core of protocols across the…

Regent Supports Dominican Republic Mission Trip, Making Spine Surgery Possible for 13

For the second consecutive year, Regent employees joined a 26-person volunteer team of orthopedic and neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists and a variety of supporting professionals, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to provide desperately needed spine surgeries for youth and young adults (read about 2018 trip here). Operating at Cedimat Hospital, this year’s team completed 13 surgeries over…