11 Keys to Profitable Ortho

1. Build teams and flip rooms; 2. Use regional anesthesia; 3. Invest in instruments; 4. Plan ahead; 5. Clean up quicker; 6. Negotiate carve-outs; 7. Ways to plan for efficiency; 8. Educate all about supply costs; 9. Track case costs by physician; 10. Stack schedule blocks; 11. Beat the implant blues; William E. Baumann, RN, BS, CNOR ; David Cohen, MD; Stuart Katz, FACHE, CASC; Mandi Strode, RN ; Tracy Hoeft-Hoffman, MBA, MSN, RN; Greg DeConciliis, PA-C, CASC; Stuart Katz, FACHE, CASC; Emilie Keene, MHA ; Beverly Primeau, RN, CRNFA, BA, MBA; Stuart Katz, FACHE, CASC; BS, CNOR; Baumann, RN, BS, CNOR; Beat; Beverly; Build; CNOR; CPT; Cases; Center; Clean; Concentrate; E. Baumann, RN, BS, CNOR; Educate; Hospital; Hosting; Implant; Insertion; Invest; Keene, MHA; LeBonheur; Lock; MHA; Make; Mandi; Match; Maximize; McBride Orthopedic Hospital; Medicare's; Meniscectomy; Mid Rivers Surgery Center; Mo. Use; Negotiate; Observe; Orthopedic Hospital; PAs; PONV/PDNV; Parkridge; Performing; Peters, Mo. Use; Plan; Presenting; RN; RN, BS, CNOR; RNFAs; Repeat; Rivers Surgery Center; San; Set; St. Peters, Mo. Use; Stack; Staff; Strode, RN; Surgery Center; Track; Understanding; Ways; ablation; actual; additional; administrator; advance; alternating; amount; analgesia/anti-emesis; anesthesia; anticipate; arrange; arrive; assemble; assign; assist; assistant; avoids; aware; back; back-to-back; basic; begin; benefits; best-laid; bigger; bill; billing; block; brings; budget; business; call; capped; cards; care; careful; carriers; carve; carve-outs; case; cases; caused; challenging; charge; circulators; cleaning; climb; close; codes; commercial; companies; comprehensive; concept; constantly; contact; continue; continuous; contracts; control; cord; cost; costing; costs; credible; customized; data; day; dedicated; delayed; delays; delivery; demand; designing; deter; develop; devices; differentials; difficulty; director; discover; discuss; doctor; dollar; drapes; draping; dropped; drops; educate; education; efficiencies; efficiency; eliminate; ensure; equipment; estimates; expensive; expert; extends; extra; facilities; facility; familiar; favorable; fear; feel; fires; flash; flip; flipping; fluidity; fourth; free; glove; good; groundbreaking; growing; handle; helps; high-cost; holder; hosting; ignore; implant; include; including; induction; instrument; inventory; investment; involved; issues; item; jarred; keeping; key; knee; knowledge; lag; leadership; leaving; left; leg; letting; levels; limited; locate; lock; log; loose; low; low-cost; maintain; make; managed; manager; materials; meet; meetings; members; meniscectomy; menisectomies; mind; minutes; moderate; month; movements; multi-modal; needed; negative; negotiating; nerve; nurse; open; opened; operative; opioid-induced; ortho; orthopedic; outfitting; outpatient; over-usage; page; pain; paper; pass; patient; patients; pay; payment; payor; percent; perform; peripheral; phase-in; phone; physicians; plan; plug; pointers; post-op; potential; practical; preference; prep; preps; price; procedure; procedures; products; profitable; pull; purchase; purchasing; putting; questionable; quickly; rates; re-evaluate; readers; ready; real; recognize; record; reduces; reference; regional; regularly; reimbursed; reimbursement; reiterate; remove; rep; reprocessing; require; resistant; review; riding; risk; room; ruin; run; running; satisfaction; satisfied; satisfy; schedule; scheduled; scheduling; scores; sedation; services; set; sets; side; smart; solely; speeding; spots; stacking; staff; staffing; start; sterile; stop; strategy; streamline; submitted; supplies; supply; surgeon; surgeons; surgery; surgical; surround; system; table; tabs; taught; team; techs; thermal; third-party; tied; time; times; tools; top; trouble; turnaround; turnover; type; unused; upwards; usage; valuable; vendors; verify; volume; wait; waiting; wands; waste; watch; wave; ways; work; worry