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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Megatrends - January 2018

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, providing current information on Surgical Services, Surgical Facility Administration, Outpatient Surgery News and Trends, OR Excellence and more.

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1 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8 Y ou can't put a price on a patient's life, but you can place a value on safer surgical care. Consider that a recent 20% reduction in general surgery complications over 5 years at 72 Michigan hospitals lowered expenditures at the facilities by $20 million. Darrell A. Campbell, Jr., MD, chief medical officer at the University of Michigan Health System, helps manage the hospital partnership, which is driven by a pool of data on tens of thousands of surgeries and is backed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Michigan. "We've become a patient safety organization," says Dr. Campbell. "This effort, designed by the people on the front lines of surgical care, Are You Fully Invested in Patient Safety? The movement toward value-based reimbursement makes posi- tive outcomes more economically important than ever before. • ON THE TABLE Using transparent data to help surgeons perform safer, more cost-effective surgery,facilities that spend less for quality care are in line to see their earnings rise. Daniel Cook | Executive Editor

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