Here are 10 financial articles for spine surgeons touching on entrepreneurism, physician ownership, new payment models and cost of care.
Entrepreneurial Spine Surgeons: How They're Thriving Today
Entrepreneurial-minded spine surgeons have a long history of opening and succeeding with their own private practices; some even built large specialty groups with multidisciplinary services.
12 Tactics for Spine Surgeons to Avoid Hospital Employment
Spine surgeons, along with all specialists, are increasingly becoming employed by hospitals for a variety of reasons: starting salary is higher, set working hours and the ability to focus on the clinic instead of worry about the business. However, hospital employment may do more harm than good for surgeons in the long run.
Spine Surgery in ASCs: 6 Burning Questions About Future Feasibility
As today’s healthcare environment grows more challenging for spine surgeons, those who are leaders in the field continue to innovate and stay ahead of the curve for successful private practice.
The Economics of Spine & ASCs: 6 Trends to Follow
A group of experts discusses the big financial trends for spine surgery and ASCs, including implant costs, narrow networks, price transparency and data collection.
How Spine Surgeons Opening ASCs Will Impact Healthcare Delivery & Costs
Surgeons are becoming more educated and business savvy, and spine surgeons are aware they've become a target for reducing the high costs in healthcare. In the future, spine surgeons will focus more on collecting patient outcomes and show how their technique and practice model benefits both the clinical and economic aspects of care.
Spine Surgery Episodes of Care: $9k Medicare Payment Variation
Payment based on episodes of care is becoming more common in bundled payment and accountable care organization situations. A new study published in The Spine Journal examines Medicare payments for episodes of spine surgery.
Bundled Payments for Spine Surgery: What's on the Horizon
Cost saving efforts as a result of healthcare reform has taken over the healthcare industry in various forms, including accountable care organizations, population health management and bundled payments. Bundled payments, though popular for many orthopedic procedures, are currently not as common for spine surgeries. Should physicians and spine practices prepare for bundled payments to transform the way they make money?
Are ACOs Beneficial for Spine Surgeons? Q&A With Dr. Nick Shamie of UCLA
A. Nick Shamie, MD, associate professor of spine surgery at UCLA and president of the American College of Spine Surgery, discusses new payment models on the horizon and how spine surgeons will fit into accountable care organizations.
Deconstructing the Cost of Spine Care: Where Dollars Really Go
The media has paid a lot of attention to physician compensation recently as a means to decrease the cost of care, but among spine patients — even surgical patients — the surgeon's compensation is just a small piece of a huge pie.
The Cost of Spine Care: 5 Factors Surgeons Can Impact
Spine surgeons play a roll in lowering the overall cost of care. This article explores five different factors spine surgeons can impact.
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