Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs Ep 159: Tracking Surgeon Quality to Improve Cost & Care for Patients
Patients trust that their healthcare providers are sending them to the best surgeon possible when the need arrives, but that’s not always the case. Too often, patients aren’t receiving the best match when surgery is required due to outdated methods but times are changing. Sanjay Prasad, MD, CACS, started the company SurgiQuality to better track surgeon results and better identify quality of care. Today he joins us to talk about this new business and its goal to improve both costs and care for all parties.
About our guest and his book: https://resettinghealthcare.com/
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What we discuss in this episode:
2:36 – Background on our Dr. Prasad
5:03 – What’s the issue with surgical referrals right now?
7:52 – How SurgiQuality operates
10:18 – Acquiring data on surgeries
13:51 – COVID’s impact on healthcare
16:56 – Where are we headed?
19:02 – Dealing with difficult patients
21:20 – Working with surgeons for tracking results
24:02 – Dr. Prasad shares a story
26:11 – Who buys into SurgiQuality?
26:11 – How many companies are self-insured?
29:40 – Medicare and Medicaid
30:31 – Cost savings
32:22 – Details on his book
33:22 – Building the SurgiQuality platform
35:30 – Final message from Dr. Prasad