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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > December, 2009 Vol. X, No. 12

Cataract Case Costing Down to the Penny

Find out how to cost your cataract cases down to the tape that you use to cover the patient's non-procedural eye (3¢).

J.C. Sandmann, MBA

I've costed our cataract procedures down to the tape (3¢) that we use to cover the patient's non-procedural eye, to the warm blanket (41¢), to the retrobulbar injection (29¢), to the surgeon's cap (4¢) and gloves ($2.75). I know this might seem a tad obsessive, but in a business where income is largely pre-determined by private or government reimbursements, the greatest opportunity to increase profitability is through effective cost management. And when you host thousands of patients, a few cents here and a few cents there can really add up.

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