Episode #228 Lower Cost, Better Outcomes, Greater Efficiency: The Promise of Ambulatory Surgical Centers with Adnan Qureshi, Managing Director, Kaufman Hall

About this episode

The episode discusses the benefits and efficiencies of Ambulatory Surgical Centers with guest Adnan Qureshi.

Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) have been around in concept for the past fifty years, but their recent explosion has caught the attention of healthcare systems and, frankly, patients. Why? Today’s guest, Adnan Qureshi, is a Managing Director with the Mergers and Acquisitions practice at Kaufman Hall. He provides strategic advisory services for healthcare providers and investors around the merger or acquisition of ASCs. The benefit he’s seen in partnership with his clients perhaps explains the answer to this question. The “DNA”, as Adnan puts it, of the ASC is rooted in independent physicians who, as an extension of their practice, saw the benefit of doing lower acuity surgeries in an outpatient setting. As pain management and technology improved over time, the use case also evolved to the point where there are now few specialty areas where uncomplicated surgeries cannot be performed in an ASC. Without the overhead and operating costs of a hospital, ASCs allow for far more transparent pricing, lower costs, greater efficiency, and often better outcomes, all driving towards higher patient satisfaction. And that’s a win we should all be paying attention to. Adnan Qureshi has over…

People in this episode

Host: Zeev Neuwirth

Guest: Adnan Qureshi

Topics covered

• Ambulatory Surgical Centers
• Healthcare Efficiency
• Patient Satisfaction
• Surgery
• Healthcare Economics

Keywords

• Ambulatory Surgical Centers
• lower costs
• better outcomes
• healthcare systems
• outpatient surgery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kaufman Hall, SCA Health, Optum/UnitedHealth Group

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