Starting your own SurgiCenter

[Stillwater45]

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Has anyone ever heard of an anesthesiologist building and running their own outpatient surgicenter? Seems like it would work for plastics/ortho/urology/and other outpatient surgeries. Rent it out to practices or bill a facility fee by the case. Would surgeons go for this? Im sure there woud be many accredidation hoops to jump through but is this reasonable? It was just thought and I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of this.

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Has anyone ever heard of an anesthesiologist building and running their own outpatient surgicenter? Seems like it would work for plastics/ortho/urology/and other outpatient surgeries. Rent it out to practices or bill a facility fee by the case. Would surgeons go for this? Im sure there woud be many accredidation hoops to jump through but is this reasonable? It was just thought and I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of this.

Unlikely. Most of the surgicenters I know of are at least partly owned by surgeons, if not completely owned by them. In these cases, you WANT them to be involved in ownership to ensure that they have the incentive to do their private insurance cases at this facility.

 

[Tenesma]

anesthesiologists do own and run surgery centers... like UT said you have to make sure that the surgeons can buy shares into the practice so that they have an incentive to bring in cases....

a 2 OR surgery center will cost between 800,000 and 2 million to set-up. and that doesn't include the legal fees when you have to go for your CON (certificate of need). In some states it is damn near impossible to get CONs due to the competition from local hospitals.

 

[MedicinePowder]

anesthesiologists do own and run surgery centers... like UT said you have to make sure that the surgeons can buy shares into the practice so that they have an incentive to bring in cases....

a 2 OR surgery center will cost between 800,000 and 2 million to set-up. and that doesn't include the legal fees when you have to go for your CON (certificate of need). In some states it is damn near impossible to get CONs due to the competition from local hospitals.

i heard of two anesthesiologist that owned their own surgicenter and worked exclusively with plasic surgeons.

 

[chinochulo]

anesthesiologists do own and run surgery centers... like UT said you have to make sure that the surgeons can buy shares into the practice so that they have an incentive to bring in cases....

In Vegas, there are at least three to four pain docs running their own multi-million dollar ambulatory surgery centers. They (and the newbie pain docs they hire) are the interventionalists/surgeons on the cases, so the owners collect big time on facility fees (as majority shareholder). None of them have recruited real surgeons to use their facilities yet, although the income potential would rise if they did. I think they are just too busy trying to outdo each other in trying to be the first to wrap up the affluent Henderson/Vegas area in the palm of their hand. 😛