Anesthesiology-led inpatient care reduces imaging utilization
The value-based model of healthcare delivery known as the perioperative surgical home (PSH), which taps anesthesiologists to captain inpatient care teams—and not just in the OR—gets some good press in a major business outlet.
Forbes contributor Robert Glatter, MD, an emergency staffer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, explains how the PSH could help cut costs, reduce lengths of stay and provide better pain management in this, the era of MACRA, MIPS and “volume to value.”
Glatter looks at a study presented last week at an anesthesiology conference that proved out the clinical and fiscal soundness of the PSH model.
Among the study’s key findings: a 9 percent reduction in imaging orders for a cohort of patients who had total knee, hip or shoulder joint replacement surgery.
Glatter quotes study co-author Devanand Mangar, MD, chief of anesthesia at Tampa General Hospital, who says the team found that patients “were going for duplicate images because our systems across institutions did not communicate.”
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