How to Prevent Canceled Surgeries: 4 Key Strategies
A single canceled surgery can cost your practice more than $4,500. These four strategies can help.
Hard Conversations: What Is the Best Approach to Handling Patient Cancellations
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, the unexpected can throw a wrench into even the most carefully laid plans — including scheduled surgery procedures. Work conflicts, family emergencies, or just a bad day can lead patients to no-shows....
OR Essentials: Why Your Practice Needs Digital Preference Cards for Surgery
If you’ve ever wondered about the secret sauce that keeps surgical procedures running seamlessly, you’re in the right place. Preference cards are personalized checklists that turn surgical teams into efficient machines. Let’s take a look at how our example doctors,...
4 ways to recession-proof your surgical practice
Follow these steps to keep your surgical pipeline strong and maintain healthy profits, even during an economic downturn.
Improving Patient Care with Surgimate Practice
Whether it’s for an elective cosmetic procedure or a lifesaving complex surgery, going under the knife is stressful and scary for a patient. Fortunately, there are small things that practice can do to alleviate those feelings of stress and make...
10 Tips to Improve the Surgery Scheduling Process
With over 10 years of experience helping hundreds of practices improve their surgery scheduling workflow, maximize revenue and enhance patient experience, we’ve learned many of the best efficiency tricks of the trade. We’re thrilled to share our findings with you....
How To Ensure Your Surgical Practice is Meeting KPIs for Surgery
Building a successful surgical practice should be just like any other business. Targets must be set. Key performance indicators (KPIs) must be tracked and reported. And managers, investors, and partners must work to make sure the business remains profitable. In...
Is Your Surgical Practice Prepared for a Second Wave
We’re all getting used to the idea that Corona is here to stay. So as schools reopen around the country and winter creeps in, it’s clear we could be looking at a second surge that could bring our new normal...
Navigating the “New Normal”: How to Safely Open Your Surgical Practice After A Pandemic
A new but different normal. That’s what we expected after a few months in isolation. With the changes, elective surgery went from none to starting up again at various levels across the country. Exactly how and when each state reopened...
How to Plan For the Surgical Backlog When A Pandemic Ends
No one knows when a pandemic will be over. Early predictions for COVID-19 ranged from the hopeful (one-to-two months) to the unimaginable (12-18 months, or longer). The truth is, no one knows when a pandemic will end or what the...