What is your typical day?

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Are these all spine “injections”? Or joints too?
All spine procedures for listed above ASC time.

I do peripheral joints randomly throughout clinic time, some of which I do with guidance, but I don’t count those in the above numbers.

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Bob barker puts most of us to shame, doing all that in one room. Agree that sedation is a time suck in one room, but not really if running two rooms.

I have modified my schedule this year so I that I only do 4.5 days of procedure per month, but I maximize my time those days. I run two ASC rooms one full day, 8am-5pm, 3 out of 4 weeks per month, so 3 of these room flipping ASC days/month. I do mainly injections on these days, maybe 1-2 RFA, but I try to limit it to 95% injections. I average 40-42 injections on those two room days, about 40-50% of cases get IV sedation, but I write the sedation orders ahead of time, so they've already had the meds on board for 4 minutes by the time I walk in the room and so I don't waste time messing around with sedation other than maybe adding one extra dose, but this doesn't delay the procedure. My other room is 15 feet away.

I also do 1.5 days per month of ASC procedures that are performed in a single room that day. This includes all larger procedures such as stim trials, implants, and ablations. Far fewer procedures per day but still move reasonably quickly, but I don't require as much staff on these cases, and these cases don't benefit as much from room flipping as do injection cases.

Adds up to approximately 125 injections, 20 ablations, and 2 stims/month accomplished in 4.5 days of procedure time/month
Are you a shareholder? Is your asc profitable? Sounds like it must be
 
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